[hobbit] Creating hosts to monitor, do not resolve hostname

[Josh Luthman]

Henrik,

Thank you very much for the solution and thank you for being timely!

I couldn't have asked for a better solution or better answer.  The above
information was simply perfect.  Thank you very very much!

Josh

On 10/4/07, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 11:27:21PM -0400, Josh Luthman wrote:
> > While I have found it is close to identical - something that my BB did
> not
> > do was resolve hostnames and monitor those addresses resolved.  I was
> always
> > able to monitor the IP address and the hostname acted as a host
> identifier,
> > nothing more.  I have a lot of "fake" hostnames that are catching
> wildcards
> > on domains that are resolving to undesired IP addresses.
>
> Add a "testip" tag on these hosts in the bb-hosts file. Or if you want
> this to cover all hosts, edit the hobbitlaunch.cfg file and add the
> --dns=ip option to the bbtest-net command.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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