pseudo-host with multiple ip's

Rasmus Plewe rplewe at ess.nec.de
Wed Jan 8 17:25:04 CET 2003


On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 09:14:45AM -0600, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:
> Instead of using the built-in support for IP addresses in Nagios, instead of
> using /etc/hosts, why not use DNS?  You can define multiple A records for a
> given hostname, and only specify that hostname within Nagios.

...and get tons and billions of notifications once your DNS server
goes down. 

> (It's early, I haven't had my coffee yet, I don't have the rest of the
> thread of this message, so forgive me if my answer isn't relevant.  ;^)

No problem, have a nice coffee. ;-)


Rasmus


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