[hobbit] How hobbit server deal with DNS server failure when doing conn test ?

[Josh Luthman]

Pretty confident if the DNS lookup fails it times out and marks the conn red
=(  If you don't need it to do a DNS lookup simply add testip.

On 3/19/08, T.J. Yang <tj_yang at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> I remember somewhere in the manpages,
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> The hobbit server when doing fping conn test, it will try using FQDN and
> if
> not resolvable,
> it will use the ip address(from bb-hosts) file.
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> Is this a correct statement ?
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> I will summarize the answer here
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> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Other_Docs/FAQ#How_does_the_conn_test_work_if_the_first_ping_doesn.27t_respond_.3F
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