Weirdness with check_ping

[Jeffcoat, Al]

Hello All,
 
I've noticed some weirdness in my event log for Nagios.  Here is a
sample entry:
 
[09-13-2002 07:55:42] SERVICE ALERT: hawk;SMTP;OK;SOFT;3;SMTP OK - 0
second response time
[09-13-2002 07:54:23] SERVICE ALERT:
hawk;SMTP;CRITICAL;SOFT;2;Connection refused by host 
[09-13-2002 07:53:53] SERVICE ALERT:
hawk;SMTP;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;Connection refused by host 
[09-13-2002 07:32:22] SERVICE ALERT: falcon1;PING;OK;SOFT;2;PING OK -
Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.00 ms 
[09-13-2002 07:31:32] SERVICE ALERT: falcon1;PING;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;PING
CRITICAL - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 858993472.00 ms 
[09-13-2002 07:28:52] Auto-save of retention data completed
successfully. 
[09-13-2002 07:20:22] SERVICE ALERT: eagle;PING;OK;SOFT;2;PING OK -
Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.00 ms 
[09-13-2002 07:19:32] SERVICE ALERT: eagle;PING;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;PING
CRITICAL - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 858993472.00 ms 
[09-13-2002 07:04:32] SERVICE ALERT: eagle;PING;OK;SOFT;2;PING OK -
Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.00 ms 
[09-13-2002 07:03:42] SERVICE ALERT: eagle;PING;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;PING
CRITICAL - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 858993472.00 ms
 
Notice the high RTA entries...
I have many more entries from multiple machines like that one.
 
When I run the check_ping command by hand, it works fine.  Here's a
sample:
 
[/nagios/libexec] ># ./check_ping -H eagle -w100,20% -c500,60%
PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.00 ms
 
Just to show that it actually get's a really real RTA:
 
[/nagios/libexec] ># ./check_ping -H orhs.org -w100,20% -c500,60%
PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 9.00 ms
 
Any ideas why it would be getting such an outrageous RTA?  And, what's
the first step to try to troubleshoot this?
 
I'm running Nagios 1.05b, with nagiosplug-1.3-beta1, on an AIX 5.1
system.
 
TIA,
Al Jeffcoat
 
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