Thanks for your suggestion Jan-Henrik. I switched the order of the entriesin /etc/hosts and that seems to do the trick. The ferret server now binds to the first entry (the ipv4 version) and thus monit is able to do the monitoring.
I checked with my hosting company and they agreed that I could also remove the ::1 entry without any problems. Are there any plans to perhaps have a forum related to monit instead of just the mailing list? It would be great to have a forum where users could share successful recipes for monitoring various difference services. There are some great examples on the site already at http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/doc/examples.php but a forum could foster more of that. Just a thought. - thanks again Francois On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 6:40 PM, Jan-Henrik Haukeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 15. mars. 2008, at 02.24, Francois wrote: > > > The hosts file on all my freebsd systems looks like this: > > > > ::1 localhost > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > > > I just tried removing the first entry. After doing so I still cannot > > connect to the relevant port on 127.0.0.1. However, if I then > > stopped and restarted the ferret server I was then able to connect > > to the relevant port on 127.0.0.1. > > So it seems that if that ::1 entry is present in /etc/hosts the > > ferret server will somehow bind to that instead of 127.0.0.1 > > But before I permanently remove that ::1 entry I'll have to see if > > I can learn more about it to ensure that removing it doesn't cause > > any unwanted side effects. > > The ferret server seems to be using IPv6 when available, while monit > only supports Ipv4. You could try to change the order in /etc/hosts so > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > comes before > > ::1 localhost > > Its a long shoot, if this does not help and you want to use IPv6 for > the loopback device, try to configure the ferret server to use both IP- > versions. Though removing ::1 and using Ipv4 for 127.0.0.1 only should > not have side effects as servers speaking IPv6 also supports IPv4 > (usually). > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/monit-general >
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