[Bigsister-general] problem with ping check when multiple hosts have same ip address

[Martin Fuzzey <suppressed>]

Hi,

I am trying to use bigsister to monitor my ISP in addition to my own 
systems.

So I have set up bigsister hosts :
smtp.myprovider.net
pop.myprovider.net

(where myprovider is the real domain of my ISP)

I then use bigsister checks in uxmon-net:
pop.myprovider.net	ping pop3
smtp.myprovider.net	ping smtp

The problem is I then get a purple for the conn column of 
pop.myprovider.net (all the others are green)

It seems the problem is that pop.myprovider.net and smtp.myprovider.net 
actually resolve to the same IP address and the code in ping.pm creates 
a hashtable keyed by the ip address hence only one ping gets done.

So,
Is this a bug or a feature?
What should I do about it?

Of course I could just combine the hosts into a single one but I'm not 
really supposed to know how my ISP arranges its services.

Or I could delete one of pings but then I can't differentiate between 
service unavailable and machine unavailable.

Regards,

Martin








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