How do we report a possible bug (in check_ping)?

[Eddie F]

Yes, DNS was the first thing I thought of, but that is definitely fine.
As I mentioned FTP, HTTP and SSH are working fine using the same domain name.


On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Andrew D (Webzone)
<andrewd at webzone.net.au> wrote:
> Eddie F wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> How/where do I report bugs for Nagios?
>> And just as importantly, how/where do I check to see if it is
>> something that has already been reported?
>>
>> I think I might have found a bug in check_ping when a a domain name is
>> entered for host_address rather than the IP address. I've found that
>> using the domain name seems to work fine with some other check
>> commands (FTP, HTTP and SSH).
>>
>
>
> I can think of a reason for this, using a hostname is really testing 2
> things, your DNS resolution and the 'reachablity' of the said host.
>
> If your DNS goes down then the ping test fails even though it might be fine.
>
>>
>> See the two examples below, running check_ping on our system. Firstly
>> using the domain name, then using IP address...
>>
>> # /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ping -H nagios.org -w 300,10% -c
>> 1000,50% -p 5
>> CRITICAL - Plugin timed out after 10 seconds
>>
>> # /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ping -H 66.118.156.22 -w 300,10% -c
>> 1000,50% -p 5
>> PING WARNING - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 709.87
>> ms|rta=709.869019ms;300.000000;1000.000000;0.000000 pl=0%;10;50;0
>>
>>
>> I've tried this with many hosts (one on the same sub-net), and the
>> result have always been the same
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Eddie.
>>
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