[Xymon] client change of IP...

[Ralph Mitchell]

This is one reason you might want to run a DNS cache on your Xymon server.
Everything gets looked up, every time.

Ralph Mitchell

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 7:46 AM Ian Diddams via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com>
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> xymon 4.3.28
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> learned something new today!
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> We have a xymon client  - lets call it FRED.  FRED has its IP changed and
> so hosts.cfg is updated with the new IP.
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> BUT
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> the xymon conn test continues to use the previous IP to ping against.
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> It seems (my learning point!) that the conn test does NOT use the contents
> of hosts.cfg...  but the dns resolution for the hostname (or at least
> primarily).
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> Only when the DNS was updated did xymon then use the new IP for the conn
> test.
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> Who knew?  (Well, not me bit I expect all you probably did!  LOL)
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> didds
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