Thanks for the reply;<br><br>Yes Im aware that the package maintainers may mess with the config but lets assume the default config that tarball from <a href="http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/">http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/</a> uses.<br>
<br>What do you mean by 'non existent ones'..? I mean, I understand that putting some sort of server in there would most likely result in a DOS, but the packets surely are been sent somewhere? How else can it measure RTT through ping?<br>
<br>The config is quite uninformative in this regard..<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/5/28 G.W. Haywood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ged@jubileegroup.co.uk">ged@jubileegroup.co.uk</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hi there,<br>
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On Thu, 28 May 2009, Paul Bourke wrote:<br>
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> I was wondering, on a default install of smokeping (ubuntu 8.10), what<br>
> host/hosts does it ping by default to measure RTT?<br>
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</div>I can't speak for Ubuntu, but as Debian is likely to be fairly similar<br>
I'd say the answer is probably 'a bunch of non-existent ones'.<br>
<br>
I can't see that there would be any sense in putting a real 'default<br>
host' in the config, since the odds are that it would be completely<br>
irrelevant to the majority of users. Furthermore with a popular<br>
distribution you'd probably wind up DOSing the hapless default host<br>
when thousands of people fire up a network application without reading<br>
the documentation. Or even the config. :)<br>
<br>
If you look in the configuration on the machine, it should tell you<br>
what you need to know. Alternatively, if this is just a hypothetical<br>
question, you could contact the maintainer responsible for Smokeping<br>
on Ubuntu and ask, or download the package file and look in there.<br>
<br>
Many distributions will offer any given package, and they do all kinds<br>
of strange things with it (patch it, change the default locations of<br>
nearly everything, setuid, run it in a sandbox...). It's unreasonable<br>
to expect the people who create the packages to keep abreast of all<br>
the strange things that distribution packagers do with them.<br>
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73,<br>
Ged.<br>
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