RE: {bb} Henrik's lobby: kill the conn test!

[Jerry Shenk <jas@dect.com>]

There already is a noping.  Personally, I'd be happy to add a word to every 
line.  Something like:
vi bb-hosts
:1,$s/#/# conn/gs

I think that would take care of the entire bb-hosts file.  Being able to use 
fping would be great for those of us with too many hosts and boxes that are 
a little under powered.

===== Original Message from Sean MacGuire <bb@taex001.tamu.edu> at 6/01/99 
7:51 pm
>Henrik Olsen wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 31 May 1999, Sean MacGuire wrote:
>> > > Also, is there a reason not to use fping by default?
>> >
>> > Yes, it's not ours to include, nor is it the right tool for every
>> > situation (but it is really cool for large networks!).
>> >
>> > We've found the best way to handle these situations is as seperate
>> > enhancements to BB.
>>
>> An idea that's been banged around a bit on the irc channel is to make
>> fping use configurable in bbdef.
>> That's something to put in 1.3, since it might be linked to a more
>> fundamental change of changing the conn test (ping/fping) into a regular
>> service check that won't be done by default and has to be specified for
>> every host to ping.
>>
>
>Henrik's lobby to kill off the 'conn' test has officially begun.
>
>Background:
>
>When BB was born, pretty well all it did was ping the /etc/hosts
>file.  Then can it's own hosts file, and other services to check.
>So every service to check is listed in the etc/bb-hosts file,
>except for 'special' ping which is always on by default.
>
>The idea here would be to force the use of a 'conn' keyword and
>make the ping test optional.  But every brother would have
>to change every bb-hosts file, and that (IMHO) sucks.
>
>Another alternative is to do the opposite, and introduce a
>'noconn' keyword meaning to specifically disable the default
>ping test.
>
>The question is 'how to get to there from here', disturbing as
>few brothers as possible, while correcting an inelegant default
>on my part...
>
>I suppose we'll have to deal with this sooner or later...
>
>(Now the dreaded part)
>
>Comments?
>--
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