Can someone clarify... Does MRTG work with DNS names, instead of IP addresses? Is what he is trying even supported?
- Scott > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Guenther Boelter > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 4:14 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [mrtg] MRTG and DynDNS > > Thanks Alex, > > looks like it's really a problem with MRTG. > > If nobody has a better idea, I will try to run MRTG via cron > instead as a daemon. > > Let's see .... > > > > > Alex van den Bogaerdt wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 02:38:22PM +0800, Guenther Boelter wrote: > > > >> I have an agent/client with a dynamic IP address using > dyndns.org. At > >> the moment the IP address for the client has changed MRTG > can't get > >> datas anymore from that client because MRTG is still using > the old ip. > > > > Is MRTG, or is your entire system? > > > > Perhaps you've just found out about DNS caching... > > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_system#Caching_and_time_to_li > > ve > > > > I'm not saying that it certainly is not mrtg, I don't know, but I > > could think about a couple of other places where things > could go wrong. > > > > I hope someone else can give a more definitive answer but > in the mean > > time you could try to narrow down the problem area. Some > tools will > > use the DNS resolver (and return cached data) some will > bypass it and > > return the new IP address. Maybe a small perl program > would do, one > > pinging the host one time and thus showing the IP address. > > > > HTH > > Alex > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mrtg mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/mrtg > > > > _______________________________________________ > mrtg mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/mrtg > > _______________________________________________ mrtg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/mrtg
