Re: {bb} Client can't find BBPAGER by ip address?

[Michael Jameson <michael@myrradel.com>]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the idea.  We'll try this.  Is there any way to do it in bb 
itself, though?  That way, we can distribute the configuration in the 
bb client to each of our client servers, instead of also having to edit 
the /etc/hosts file on each server as well.

It's just surprising that bb is forced to do dns resolution to contact the 
BBPAGER.

Thanks again!
-Michael



On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Daniel O Winkless wrote:

> You could add myrradel to the hosts file on the affected systems.  On Unix 
> systems, update /etc/hosts with a line like:
> 10.0.0.110      myrradel.com
> 
> On Windoze systems, it's someplace like:
> c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
> 
> Format w/in the file is the same.
>                 Dan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Michael Jameson <michael@myrradel.com>
> Sent by: owner-bb@bb4.com
> 03/24/2005 03:09 AM
> Please respond to bb
>  
>         To:     bb@bb4.com
>         cc: 
>         Subject:        {bb} Client can't find BBPAGER by ip address?
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> The BBDISPLAY is updating correctly, but notifications from the clients 
> are not being sent out.
> 
> My bb-hosts looks like:
> 
> # THE BIG BROTHER HOSTS FILE
> 10.0.0.110      myrradel.com      # testip BBDISPLAY BBPAGER BBNET 
> 10.0.0.210      myr.internal.com  # testip pop3
> 216.218.224.14  myrradel.com      # http://www.myrradel.com dig
> 
> I use testip, because the hostnames don't actually resolve to those 
> internal ip addresses.
> 
> BBOUT gives error messages like:
> Thu Mar 24 01:56:10 2005 bb-local.sh Thu Mar 24 01:56:10 2005 bb CAN'T 
> CONNECT TO bbd SERVER @ myrradel.com
> Thu Mar 24 01:58:07 2005 bb-local.sh Thu Mar 24 01:58:07 2005 bb 
> CONNECTION TO myrradel.com TIMED OUT...
> 
> I'm assuming the problem is that testip is only for BBNET (which is why 
> the webpages on BBDISPLAY are updated with client information), but 
> BBPAGER keeps trying to connect by the hostname myrradel.com, which is 
> why my client email notifications aren't getting out.
> 
> How do I trick the client machines to connect to BBPAGER by its ip address 
> 
> 10.0.0.110 instead of by the hostname myrradel.com?
> 
> (BTW, as suspected, the client running ON the BBDISPLAY server does get 
> its notifications sent, because on that server myrradel.com does resolve 
> to itself.)
> 
> Thank you!
> -Michael
> 
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