{bb} Re: BBGEN 3.5 Multi-content test DNS error

[Henrik Storner <henrik-bb@hswn.dk>]

In <3D8746D3B6F2E049A3D3103E7A55B9E802770677@Toroondc913> brent.mccrackin@bell.ca writes:

[http content check with bbgen]

>When there is a problem with the website, though, with the specific
>examples being an Internal Server Error 500 code, the http column goes
>red with a 'DNS ERROR' message and the test1 and test2 columns go clear,
>but report the error page results.  This causes confusion with the
>people carrying the pager, as they think there is a problem with the DNS
>server or Big Brother, rather than seeing the 500 error from their
>servers.
>
>There is no evidence of an actual DNS error - the only error is a 500
>code from the webserver produced by the content test.

The "DNS error" message is triggered by bbtest-net when it cannot
determine the IP-address for the URL. So it should only happen if
indeed there is a DNS problem. But since you get a "500" status error
then obviously that cannot be the case.

Could you send me a copy of one of these http logs ? You must have
some in the historical logs - bbvar/histlogs/hostname/http/time_of_error

BTW, if you want the content-status to go red instead of clear when
there is a HTTP server problem, you can add a "~" in front of the
"cont" - e.g. ~cont;http://www.foo.com/;OK will go red on both the
http- and the content-column if the server reports an error.


Henrik
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