How do we report a possible bug (in check_ping)?

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On Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:19:38 +1000
"Eddie F" <bigedd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, DNS was the first thing I thought of, but that is definitely
> fine. As I mentioned FTP, HTTP and SSH are working fine using the
> same domain name.

If you're using the unmodified ping command that comes in the example
text files, then it probably is a DNS problem.... have you configured
your DNS to also answer ipv6 queries? If not, the plugin is probably
trying to resolve both, ipv4 requests and ipv6 requests, and timing out
while waiting for a response to the ipv6 query. Try adding -4 to the
end of the command that checks your ping and see if it responds
properly using the hostname.

> 
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Andrew D (Webzone)
> <andrewd at webzone.net.au> wrote:
> > Eddie F wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> How/where do I report bugs for Nagios?
> >> And just as importantly, how/where do I check to see if it is
> >> something that has already been reported?
> >>
> >> I think I might have found a bug in check_ping when a a domain
> >> name is entered for host_address rather than the IP address. I've
> >> found that using the domain name seems to work fine with some
> >> other check commands (FTP, HTTP and SSH).
> >>
> >
> >
> > I can think of a reason for this, using a hostname is really
> > testing 2 things, your DNS resolution and the 'reachablity' of the
> > said host.
> >
> > If your DNS goes down then the ping test fails even though it might
> > be fine.
> >
> >>
> >> See the two examples below, running check_ping on our system.
> >> Firstly using the domain name, then using IP address...
> >>
> >> # /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ping -H nagios.org -w 300,10% -c
> >> 1000,50% -p 5
> >> CRITICAL - Plugin timed out after 10 seconds
> >>
> >> # /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ping -H 66.118.156.22 -w 300,10%
> >> -c 1000,50% -p 5
> >> PING WARNING - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 709.87
> >> ms|rta=709.869019ms;300.000000;1000.000000;0.000000 pl=0%;10;50;0
> >>
> >>
> >> I've tried this with many hosts (one on the same sub-net), and the
> >> result have always been the same
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Eddie.
> >>
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