[hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup

[Everett, Vernon]

Hi all

Was catching up on my list, and saw this.
For what it's worth, we were having serious DNS issues in a mixed Unix/Windoze environment.
Amongst other things, we were getting DNS lookup failures, and bbtest-net was coring.
With some assistance from Henrik, we deduced it was a bug in the c-ares library - the details of which completely escapes me.
(I don't even remember what the c-ares library does)
To work around the issue, we added --no-ares to the [bbnet] CMD line in hobbitlaunch.cfg on the server.
Our entry now reads
     CMD bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse --no-ares

It might not work, it might be a red herring, but it might just resolve the issue, and considering the effort it will cost to implement, there might be no harm in trying.
Good luck.

Cheers
      V

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From: MFisher at hra.com [mailto:MFisher at hra.com]
Sent: Friday, 25 September 2009 11:43 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup


Thank you all for your input. Our DNS environment consists of both Windows Server 2003 DNS as well as BIND. Both dns tests give the same result. DNS OK but no query below.

I will have to experiment with a different build of xymon because i have a suspision that there is something wrong with the bbtest-net.

I will post results shortly.

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