check_ping strange behavior with google

[Travis Runyard]

Long option and short option achieve the same thing, which requires an IP
address. I have tried it out, on two separate nagios boxes, one running
Debian, the other, Redhat. Why don't you copy and paste the results from
shell to prove me wrong?

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Holger Weiß <holger at cis.fu-berlin.de>wrote:

> * Travis Runyard <travisrunyard at gmail.com> [2012-06-07 09:56]:
> > http://nagiosplugins.org/man/check_ping
> >
> > <host_address> = IP address. NOT hostname.
>
> Indeed, "host_address" seems to suggest an IP address.  Then again, the
> long option is called "--hostname" :-)  Anyway, you can specify either
> an IP address or a hostname.  Why don't you simply try it out?
>
> > $HOSTADDRESS$ - Address of the host. This value is taken from the
> > *address* directive in the host definition
>
> You neither have to hand over the $HOSTADDRESS$ to check_ping (you could
> use the $HOSTALIAS$ or whatever you like instead), nor do you have to
> specify an IP address as the "address" of a host.¹  We use only
> hostnames in our Nagios configuration.
>
> Holger
>
> ¹ "Normally, this is an IP address, although it could really be anything
>  you want" -- http://nagios.sf.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#host
>
>
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