{bb} "bbnet Timeout with server" messages and purple conn tests

[Jason Signalness <jason@btiadmin.net>]

We've been having some unusual problems in our network, most likely 
switch related.  But the odd thing is, our Big Brother server doesn't 
react in any logical way.

For example, a bunch of the "conn" tests go purple, not red.  Since we 
don't get paged on purple, we don't get paged.  I noticed these alerts 
in the BBOUT file:

Wed Dec 21 04:20:42 2005 bbnet Timeout with server 1.2.3.4 on port 22
Wed Dec 21 04:21:02 2005 bbnet Timeout with server 5.6.7.8 on port 110
Wed Dec 21 04:21:22 2005 bbnet Timeout with server 9.10.11.12 on port 25
... and so on.

Can anyone explain why conn tests go purple, not red?  Under normal 
operation (when our switch or whatever the cause of this issue is 
behaves) if BB can't ping a host, it marks it red and we are notified.

Thanks,
Jason
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