[hobbit] Changed IP address

Rich Smrcina rsmrcina at wi.rr.com
Thu Mar 1 22:49:47 CET 2007


Until DNS gets updated/propagated you can add 'testip' to the tests for 
that host.

Jeffrey Chandler wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have changed an IP address on one of my servers which hobbit 
> monitors.  I have updated the bb-hosts file to reflect the new IP 
> address of that host, but my hobbit server still pings the old IP address.
> 
> If I use the bbtest-net --debug command and grep for the hostname, it 
> says the following:
> 
> 2007-03-01 16:45:55 Got DNS result for host server1.example.com 
> <http://server1.example.com> : 192.168.1.100 <http://192.168.1.100>
> 
> This is no longer the IP address for this host, and is not reflected 
> that way in any of the DNS servers which the hobbit network server is 
> using.  Is there another configuration file that I need to modify as well?
> 
> My Hobbit server is running on RedHat Enterprise Linux 3.0.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff
> 

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