services and hosts time

[Paul L. Allen]

Neil writes: 

> To anyone, would you also recommended me setting max_check_attempts to 2 
> in each of my hosts in hosts.cfg and likewise the notification_interval to 
> 5? 

Pings get lost.  Routers are allowed to discard pings if they are busy.
Pings can also take a long time to return if the network is saturated
even if routers aren't dropping them.  If you want lots of e-mails
about hosts going down and recovering then go ahead and make your
change. 

-- 
Paul Allen
Softflare Support 




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