[Nagios-users] Re: Ping works but check_ping doesnt

[Rene F. <me...@re...>]

Hi Olly.

> Any ideas why I would be able to ping a box from the nagios server, but
> not get a positive result from the check-host-alive test ?

Did you use the same hostaddress for both the manual ping and nagios 
check_ping? Especially using hostnames in stead of addresses can be a 
problem. And of cause one may make a small mistake by typing an address into 
the config (me often ;-)

Bye, Rene