[hobbit] Hobbit doing DNS lookup instead of using bb-hosts address?

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Tue May 22 21:27:50 CEST 2007


On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 02:53:45PM -0400, Hobbit User wrote:
> > Yes.  testip.  When the ip and domain-name conflict, dns is used unless
> > the testip option is specified.
> >
> Thanks.  Works like a charm.  Is there doc on that?  The bb-hosts manpage
> refers to testip functionality only when stating that the http tests
> ignore it.  

That was an omission on my part - fixed now.

> My perusing of the list archives seemed to indicate that
> Hobbit used the bb-hosts IP address unless it was 0.0.0.0, in which case
> it did a lookup.  Which makes more sense to me than the actual behavior of
> having to tag the line to get the IP address on it to be used for
> anything.

I have it just the other way around :-) I'd rather not have to remember
IP's for all of my hosts - that's what DNS is for. So had it not been
for compatibility with the BB bb-hosts format, I'd probably have removed
the IP address entirely from bb-hosts.


Regards,
Henrik




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