Re: Host name resolution

Netview does keep a cache, you can configure based on OID whether to 
cache or not using xnmsnmpconf command.

Jason
Gulf Breeze Software.

Andy Pearce wrote:

> Hi,
>
>         We are running a polling daemon based on the netview OV libraries. These
> scan the netview database for a set of entries to poll and the establish
> snmp
> session to each ip address using OVsnmpOpen.
>
> The text version of the ip address is passed in to OVsnmpOpen and it does
> the
> resolution to an ip address.
>
> Everything works wonderfully accept that if I remove the hostname -> ip
> address
> mapping from the hosts file I would expect it to fail when it tries to
> resolve the
> address, but it carries on using the old address.
>
> All name resolution is done on the local machine.
>
> Does anyone know of any caches that are kept that it could be using or how I
> can
> clear them. This problem even seems to persist across a reboot of the
> machine.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Andy Pearce
>
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