My smokeping installation uses (at least I think so!) the dnscache on localhost. # cat /etc/resolv.conf search charite.de nameserver 127.0.0.1
Yet, whenever there's a network outage, smokeping cannot reach any hosts, the probes take ages and thus "na" is inserted into the RRD files. During that time I get: May 19 15:42:23 watchmen smokeping[32462]: DNS: opa.charite.de: timeout (90 s) reached, killing the probe. May 19 15:42:27 watchmen smokeping[32462]: WARNING: smokeping took 297 seconds to complete 1 round of polling. It should complete polling in 90 seconds. You may have unresponsive devices in your setup. May 19 15:45:00 watchmen smokeping[32462]: EchoPingHttp: kruemel.charite.de: timeout (90 s) reached, killing the probe. May 19 15:45:01 watchmen smokeping[32462]: EchoPingHttp: rzdoku.charite.de: timeout (90 s) reached, killing the probe. May 19 15:48:23 watchmen smokeping[32462]: DNS: opa.charite.de: timeout (90 s) reached, killing the probe. May 19 15:48:25 watchmen smokeping[32462]: WARNING: smokeping took 295 seconds to complete 1 round of polling. It should complete polling in 90 seconds. You may have unresponsive devices in your setup. May 19 15:49:51 watchmen smokeping[3312]: WARNING: /usr/bin/echoping -h / -n 20 rzdoku.charite.de was not happy: Can't connect to server (No route to host) at /usr/share/perl5/smokeping/Smokeping.pm line 816 May 19 15:51:00 watchmen smokeping[32462]: EchoPingHttp: kruemel.charite.de: timeout (90 s) reached, killing the probe. May 19 15:54:28 watchmen smokeping[32462]: DNS: opa.charite.de: timeout (90 s) reached, killing the probe. May 19 15:54:31 watchmen smokeping[32462]: WARNING: smokeping took 301 seconds to complete 1 round of polling. It should complete polling in 90 seconds. You may have unresponsive devices in your setup. May 19 15:57:00 watchmen smokeping[32462]: EchoPingHttp: kruemel.charite.de: timeout (90 s) reached, killing the probe. May 19 15:57:01 watchmen smokeping[32462]: EchoPingHttp: rzdoku.charite.de: timeout (90 s) reached, killing the probe. May 19 16:00:21 watchmen smokeping[32462]: DNS: opa.charite.de: timeout (90 s) reached, killing the probe. May 19 16:00:22 watchmen smokeping[32462]: WARNING: smokeping took 292 seconds to complete 1 round of polling. It should complete polling in 90 seconds. You may have... Is there a way of specifiying a lower timeout? -- Ralf Hildebrandt (Im Auftrag des Referat V a) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 Gemeinsame Einrichtung von FU- und HU-Berlin Fax. +49 (0)30-450 570-916 IT-Zentrum Standort Campus Mitte AIM. ralfpostfix -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Ecartis -- -- Err : No filename to use for decode, file stripped. -- Type: application/pgp-signature -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/smokeping-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
