[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#608193: Bug#608193: Bug#608193: nagios-plugins: check_snmp misreports CRITICAL socket timeout

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 11:18:08PM +0100, Jan Wagner wrote:
> On Tuesday, 28. December 2010, Marc Haber wrote:
> > I am seeing this as well on lenny as on sid:
> > 
> > $ /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_smtp --host q.bofh.de --verbose
> > HELOCMD: HELO nechayev
> > 220 q.bofh.de ESMTP Exim 4.72 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:54:43 +0100
> > CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 10 seconds
> > 
> > What's going on here?
> 
> $ /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_smtp --host q.bofh.de --verbose -t 30
> HELOCMD: HELO nagios
> 220 q.bofh.de ESMTP Exim 4.72 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 22:59:58 +0100
> sent QUIT
> received 221 q.bofh.de closing connection
> 
> SMTP OK - 20,091 sec. response time, 221 q.bofh.de closing connection
> |time=20,091494s;;;0,000000
> 
> As stated on IRC, your MTA seems to delay the answer ... raising the timeout 
> seems to fix the issue.

As stated MULTIPLE TIMES on IRC, the host running the nagios plugin is
whitelisted with the MTA and is not subject to the delays that you
encounter when testing from a non-whitelisted host.

I offered you on IRC multiple times to whitelist your IP as well but
you didn't react to that offer.

Greetings
Marc

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