[hobbit] ping test failing with wrong address!

[Terry Rossi]

Jim you were correct  sort of ...  the dns was correct but somehow my domain name was removed from the bb-hosts file.  The hosts picssql.pics.com somehow became picssql.com  - dns was resolving correctly just not to the right host!  Thanks for your help.
 
Terry
 

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From: Smith, Jim [mailto:JMSmith at stvincenthealth.com]
Sent: Thu 8/16/2007 10:02 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] ping test failing with wrong address!



My first suspect would be the DNS server for your network.  This kind of thing happens to me once in awhile and I have to get one of the Windoze guys to make sure that both the forward and reverse lookup entries in the DNS server are still there.  Usually one or the other (or both) is missing for some reason or the other.

 

Jim Smith

Little Rock

 

 

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From: Terry Rossi [mailto:tpr at pics.com] 
Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 8:57 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] ping test failing with wrong address!

 

Hi,

 

All of a sudden today one of my servers is failing it's ping test but the odd thing is that the hobbit message is not reporting the correct ip address for the server.  I have seen at least 2 different ip addresses in the failure message neither of them belong to the server or are any part of my ip space!  64.158.56.46 is not correct.  I have checked bb-hosts and it is defined correctly.

 

Please help I feel hacked!

 

red  Thu Aug 16 21:45:00 2007 conn NOT ok

Service conn on picssql.com is not OK : Host does not respond to ping


System unreachable for 7 poll periods (1557 seconds)

&red 64.158.56.46 is unreachable

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