[hobbit] Runtime longer than time limit (300)

[Josh Luthman]

Even when blue Xymon does the tests.  If the server is offline it will
timeout on the DNS tests (as well as other tests obvIously).

No bug, expected behavior.

On 9/1/09, Chris Wopat <chrisw at supranet.net> wrote:
> Unsure if this is a bug or not. I noticed that for a few days I've been
> getting "Runtime 483 longer than time limit (300)" and the bbtest column
> shows:
>
> TIME SPENT
> <snip>
> DNS tests executed	450.074868
> <snip>
> TIME TOTAL		482.741716
>
>
> I was able to successfully debug this by adding "--debug" to the [bbnet]
> CMD in hobbitlaunch.cfg. This revealed:
>
>
> 2009-09-01 08:26:01 ares_search: tlookup='dns.server.com', class=1, type=1
> 2009-09-01 08:26:01 Processing 0 DNS lookups with ARES
> 2009-09-01 08:33:31 Finished ARES queue after loop 20
>
> Note that it took 7 minutes to complete this. Where 'dns.server.com' is
> a server that we took offline on the day the issue began. We didn't
> remove this from bb-hosts and instead marked it blue.
>
> The fix was to comment it out from bb-hosts. It says "loop 20" above so
> I was searching for config options that listed 20 as a value but didn't
> come up with anything.
>
> The issue is resolved on my end but I'd like to find out if this is a
> bug or expected behavior. It seems that a single DNS check on a host
> that's down shouldn't delay things by 7 minutes.
>
> I'm running Xymon v4.2.3 on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
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