Strange Problem with check_ircd

[Subhendu Ghosh]

perl -d check_ircd <ircd options>


On 14 May 2003, Eduardo Leitão wrote:

> 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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