I've tracked down the problem, at least as far as what triggered it. Our nsswitch.conf directs that name resolution should be done by consulting the /etc/hosts first. If that file has 22 instances of the name (ie, 22 different addresses), then we get the error. If I delete any one (ok, I only tried 5 different lines) so there are 21 instances of the name, then I don't get the error. If I change nsswitch.conf to use DNS first (which has 22 different addresses) then I don't get the error.
To me, that sounds like an OS problem in the resolver. In any case, it isn't a mrtg issue. (I did confirm that it worked the last time we ran 2.14.7 and failed the first time we ran 2.15. But I found that it was now failing if I tried running it with 2.14.7. At about the same time as I updated mrtg, I also updated our /etc/hosts to accurately reflect the addresses the router has.) _______________________________________________ mrtg mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/mrtg
