[hobbit] Very Weird ping issue

Larry.Barber at usda.gov Larry.Barber at usda.gov
Fri Sep 16 23:58:44 CEST 2005


You will have to ask Henrik about why Hobbit doesn't use the bb-hosts
settings. 

You don't have to enter testip on every line, you can just define a
".default." host at the the top of your bb-hosts file and put testip in
there.

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 16:44 -0500, wes.neal at mci.com wrote:
> Larry you are correct!  Thanks!
> 
> My next question is why is it using DNS instead of the bb-hosts file?
> Is 
> there a way to make it only use the bb-hosts file and not rely on DNS
> at 
> all?  I always thought it used bb-hosts first.  I don't want to have
> to add 
> testip to every line in the file if possible.
> 
> Wes
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Larry.Barber at usda.gov [mailto:Larry.Barber at usda.gov]  
> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 5:32 PM 
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk 
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Very Weird ping issue
> 
> What happens if you put "testip" in your bb-hosts file? 
> 
> I suspect you might find that the names are being resolved
> incorrectly 
> by DNS, try an nslookup from you BBNET machine, and see what you get.
> 
> Thanks, 
> Larry Barber
> 
> 
> On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 16:15 -0500, wes.neal at mci.com wrote: 
> > I am having a problem with out of the 600 or so hosts I have right
> now 
> > and  
> > it is very odd. 
> >  
> > The four hosts in bb-hosts look like this: 
> >  
> > 166.47.52.23                    MIREGA-XYP                      # 
> > conn  
> > 166.46.11.1                     NRKANG-XYP                      # 
> > conn  
> > 166.42.132.19                   ALMMGA-AI
> #conn  
> > 166.39.161.143                  ORLLFL-AI                       #
> conn 
> >  
> > The all 4 show up as red on the web page, but with not those IP 
> > addresses.  
> > As a matter of fact the IPs they show as aren't anywhere in my 
> > bb-hosts  
> > file.  
> > The emails that are generated even have the wrong IPs as well, they 
> > look  
> > like this: 
> >  
> > red  Fri Sep 16 10:09:39 2005 conn NOT ok   
> > Service conn on ALMMGA-AI is not OK : Host does not respond to
> ping   
> > System unreachable for 9552 poll periods (3195617 seconds)   
> > &red 10.8.2.126 is unreachable  
> >  
> > red  Fri Sep 16 10:09:39 2005 conn NOT ok   
> > Service conn on MIREGA-XYP is not OK : Host does not respond to
> ping   
> > System unreachable for 9552 poll periods (3195617 seconds)   
> > &red 166.47.118.231 is unreachable  
> >  
> > As you can see those aren't the IPs in the bb-hosts file.  I have 
> > commented  
> > out the lines in the bb-hosts file and done a: 
> >  
> > bb 127.0.0.1 "drop MIREGA-XYP" for all of the hosts.  This got rid
> of 
> > them,  
> > but when I put them back in, they came right back red with the same 
> > bad IPs. 
> >  
> > What could possibly be causing this? 
> >  
> > Thanks  
> > Wes 
> >  
> >  
> >  
> >  
> >  
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