RE: Host name resolution

Thanks Jason,

        Cache cleared and all functioning okay, ahh the pleasures of networking

Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tme10-XtjxT7Vmt5b1ENwx4SLHqw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-tme10-XtjxT7Vmt5b1ENwx4SLHqw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of 
> Jason Shamroski
> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 4:09 PM
> To: tme10-XtjxT7Vmt5b1ENwx4SLHqw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [tme10] 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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> Jason Shamroski
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