Thanks for the reply; Yes Im aware that the package maintainers may mess with the config but lets assume the default config that tarball from http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/ uses.
What do you mean by 'non existent ones'..? I mean, I understand that putting some sort of server in there would most likely result in a DOS, but the packets surely are been sent somewhere? How else can it measure RTT through ping? The config is quite uninformative in this regard.. 2009/5/28 G.W. Haywood <[email protected]> > 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. >
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