[hobbit] strange result in fping by hobbit and fping by yours truly

[Josh Luthman]

What was suggested was that you have something like

172.16.1.50 terminal150.notmydomain.com #

Here Hobbit is attempting to resolve terminal150.notmydomain.com, fails, and
then pings the IP address.  Since you know the IP and it isn't going to
change, try

172.16.1.50 terminal150.notmydomain.com # testip

See if that resolves your issue.  Note you can click on the host on the web
interface and it will say the IP it is pinging.

On 11/2/07, Hobbit User <hobbit at epperson.homelinux.net> wrote:
>
> You're aware, aren't you, that unless you have "testip" keyword on the
> bb-hosts line, hobbit DNS resolves the bb-hosts name and uses the bb-hosts
> IP only if the name lookup fails?
>
> On Fri, November 2, 2007 11:28, Dennis Ortsen wrote:
> > These terminals are not in DNS. There's also a large amount of Cisco
> > accesspoints that are fpinged the same way. These AP's are also not in
> > DNS.
> > The number of AP's is even larger than the number of terminals: 247.
> >
> >> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> >> Van: Hubbard, Greg L [mailto:greg.hubbard at eds.com]
> >> Verzonden: vrijdag 2 november 2007 15:21
> >> Aan: hobbit at hswn.dk
> >> Onderwerp: RE: [hobbit] strange result in fping by hobbit and
> >> fping by yours truly
> >>
> >> DNS?
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Dennis Ortsen [mailto:dortsen at gmail.com]
> >> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 7:47 AM
> >> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> >> Subject: [hobbit] strange result in fping by hobbit and fping
> >> by yours truly
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> I've got a somewhat strange issue with fping in hobbit.
> >>
> >> I've got a list of about 122 terminals that are used for a chipcard
> >> payment system. Each one of them has an ip-address and connects to a
> >> server to process the payments. Every now and then the terminals loose
> >> the connection or whatever, they need to be reset before they can
> >> process the payments again on the server. I thought I might use Hobbit
> >> to ping all the terminals to see if they still respond to a ping. If
> >> they don't reply anymore, they need a reset.
> >>
> >> I only do a conn test on an ip-address. I use the full path
> >> to fping in
> >> hobbitserver.cfg, without any extra parameters. When hobbit starts
> >> testing the connection, only 14 terminals respond to a ping,
> >> but when I
> >> execute a fping myself (as the hobbit user) in a shell to the same
> >> amount of terminals, I get a totally different result, instead of 14
> >> responding terminals, I get 95 responding terminals with
> >> fping! It's not
> >> just a lucky shot, I can keep on trying these terminals, the huge
> >> difference remains whether I fping them myself or when hobbit fpings
> >> them.
> >>
> >> I'm running hobbit 4.2.0. According to bbtest I have 806
> >> hosts that are
> >> pinged, that takes about 26 seconds to complete. To complete all tests
> >> (954), it takes about 47 seconds.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have a clue why specifically these terminals have such a
> >> difference in hobbit ping and a ping performed by myself?
> >>
> >> I can't explain it, and it doesn't seem like a timeout (latency) issue
> >> to me either.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >>
> >> Br.
> >>
> >> Dennis
> >>
> >>
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