Strange Problem with check_ircd

[Eduardo Leitão]

Hi all,

How can i try running the check_ircd  thru the perl debugger to see what
is causing the socket bind to fail?

the problem is:
> Anyone have any idea why changing the IP of the IRC server being
monitored
 > would cause check_ircd to change from working perfectly to throwing
the
 > error "IRCD UNKNOWN: Could not bind socket (Cannot assign requested
 > address)"?  The IRC server is actually running on the same host as
nagios
 > (don't ask...), and it had worked fine with it's old IP, but once I
changed
 > the IP, that single service check broke.  It is checking it via the
external
 > IP (not local interface), and I have turned off the machine's local
 > firewalling policies for testing (there's very little outbound policy
 > anyway, for obvious reasons, and the error it's throwing leads me to
believe
 > it's a problem with the outbound connection to the service).  There
are
 > three other tcp-based checks (check_sshd, check_tcp!443 and
check_tcp!49)
 > targeted at the same host which continue to work fine.  I get the
same
 > result when running the check_ircd script from the command-line.
 > 
 
Any ideas?

Best regards


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