[SOLVED] fping: hostname nor servname provided, or not known

[carl 0]

The box info
uname -a:
FreeBSD dc2.fw.backup.localdomain
8.1-RELEASE-p13 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p13 #1: Fri Apr 12 10:50:43 EDT 2013
root@snapshots-8_1-i386.builders.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.8  i386

: cat /etc/resolv.conf
domain localdomain
nameserver 208.67.220.220
nameserver 8.8.8.8
nameserver 8.8.4.4

: ping bbc.co.uk
PING bbc.co.uk (212.58.251.195): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 212.58.251.195: icmp_seq=0 ttl=116 time=5.087 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.251.195: icmp_seq=1 ttl=116 time=4.885 ms
64 bytes from 212.58.251.195: icmp_seq=2 ttl=116 time=4.896 ms
^C
–- bbc.co.uk ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 4.885/4.956/5.087/0.093 ms

: ping google.com
PING google.com (173.194.41.142): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 173.194.41.142: icmp_seq=0 ttl=54 time=4.471 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.41.142: icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=4.411 ms
64 bytes from 173.194.41.142: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=4.576 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 4.411/4.486/4.576/0.068 ms

traceroute to above hostnames works fine also.

The problem

: fping bbc.co.uk
fping: hostname nor servname provided, or not known

: fping google.com
google.com error while sending ping: No route to host
google.com is unreachable

This seems to be isolated to fping which is installed as part of zabbix-proxy (1.8.8,2 pkg v1.1):

: fping -v
fping: Version 2.4b2_to $Date: 2002/01/16 00:33:42 $
fping: comments to david@remote.net

I cam across things suggesting problems relating to ipv6 and fping, but we are not using ipv6 and confirmed disabled in /etc/defaults/rc.conf

Any ideas why fping under 2.0.3 doesn't seem to work?

Many thanks,
carl^

[carl 0]

Resolved. I managed to get Zabbix-2 Proxy working in the end which uses fping-3.4 rather than fping-2 and this works fine.

Had a small issue with proxy.db where I was getting "no such table" in /var/log/zabbix2/zabbix_proxy.log which was resolved by stopping zabbix service, rm -rf /var/db/zabbix2/proxy.db, start zabbix service (restarting zabbix service did not seem to have same affect).

w00t :)

[carl 0]

Final followup… I found zabbix-proxy2(2.x) wasn't backward compatible with zabbix-server(1.8.x) so I ended up removing zabbix-proxy2 and re-installing zabbix-proxy1, this caused the fping issue again.

So:

pkg_info | grep fping
pkg_delete -f fping-2.4b2_1
fetch http://files.pfsense.org/packages/8/All/fping-3.4.tbz
pkg_add fping-3.4.tbz

For some reason, "/usr/local/etc/rc.d/zabbix_proxy.sh restart" did not work correctly, so use stop and start separately.

Sorted.