[smokeping-users] Slave gaps in all charts during outage

[Josh Luthman]

Oh I see.  I understood you incorrectly.

It is open source...

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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:38 PM, David Rees <drees76 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Josh Luthman
> <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
> > Well if communication between the two servers was just fine on layer 3
> but
> > it couldn't resolve, layer 7, your problem there was that the slave
> didn't
> > know what IP the master was.
> >
> > You could up the TTL to 4 hours and it could have worked in that last
> > scenario, or 8 hours, etc.
> >
> > For DNS on something like this I suggest you keep a long record, we'll
> say a
> > week.  If you know you're going to change it, change the TTL for half an
> > hour or a full hour a week in advance of the change.  Then change it to
> the
> > new IP and put the TTL back to a week.
>
> Yes, that's all fine - but the DNS issue with one of the hosts the
> slave was monitoring prevented it from monitoring ALL hosts it was
> supposed to be monitoring...  So if DNS for one host stops working for
> whatever reason, that shouldn't keep it from monitoring other hosts.
>
> -Dave
>
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