Hi there, On Thu, 28 May 2009, Paul Bourke wrote:
> I was wondering, on a default install of smokeping (ubuntu 8.10), what > host/hosts does it ping by default to measure RTT? I can't speak for Ubuntu, but as Debian is likely to be fairly similar I'd say the answer is probably 'a bunch of non-existent ones'. I can't see that there would be any sense in putting a real 'default host' in the config, since the odds are that it would be completely irrelevant to the majority of users. Furthermore with a popular distribution you'd probably wind up DOSing the hapless default host when thousands of people fire up a network application without reading the documentation. Or even the config. :) If you look in the configuration on the machine, it should tell you what you need to know. Alternatively, if this is just a hypothetical question, you could contact the maintainer responsible for Smokeping on Ubuntu and ask, or download the package file and look in there. Many distributions will offer any given package, and they do all kinds of strange things with it (patch it, change the default locations of nearly everything, setuid, run it in a sandbox...). It's unreasonable to expect the people who create the packages to keep abreast of all the strange things that distribution packagers do with them. -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ smokeping-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.oetiker.ch/cgi-bin/listinfo/smokeping-users
