Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 11:39:13 -0700 From: "DINKEY,GENE (HP-Loveland,ex1)" <gene_dinkey@hp.com> To: "'Eric Fiterman'" <fiterman@torrentnet.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RE: multiple IP addresses in /etc/hosts Message-ID: <F341E03C8ED6D311805E00902761278C531568@xfc04.fc.hp.com>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Fiterman [mailto:fiterman@torrentnet.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 9:42 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: multiple IP addresses in /etc/hosts > > > Hi: > > Is it possible to have an application like ping or telnet iterate > through IP addresses for a given hostname, if a previous > attempt fails? > > For example: > > in /etc/hosts: > --------------- > 0.0.0.1 testhost > 0.0.0.2 testhost > 0.0.0.3 testhost > --------------- > > If I attempt to 'ping testhost', and the first entry > (0.0.0.1) fails, is > there anything to configure which would allow an automatic attempt to > ping 0.0.0.2? Is this possible? Not exactly sure what your trying to accomplish - just tryuing to verify that the ip addresses are operating the way they should? nmap will probably do what you need, it's a network scanner designed to do things like scan whole subnets. You will find it in ports/security/nmap IIRC, not only is it a great network scanner but it will do other tricks like jump through flaming hoops and TCP thumbprint remote OS's. Gene Dinkey aka Master of my domain aka gder@gder.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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