[hobbit] Change of IP doesn't seem to take

Smith, Jim JMSmith at stvincenthealth.com
Tue Aug 15 22:57:35 CEST 2006


That is it!  Thanks for that quick reply!

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 3:56 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Change of IP doesn't seem to take

On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 03:51:56PM -0500, Smith, Jim wrote:

> We've been having issues with a terminal server and finally decided to
> change its IP address.  I changed the IP address in bb-hosts and
> restarted hobbit, but my status page is still showing the terminal
> server as failing to ping and showing the old IP.  I've tried
> everything...including reading the man pages.  What am I missing?

Hobbit uses a DNS lookup to determine the IP address, unless you
flag the host with "testip". Your DNS records are probably still
pointing at the old IP.


Regards,
Henrik


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