check dns problem

[Joe]

At 04:30 PM 5/12/2004, Joe wrote:
>I am using the current version of Nagios on a system to check a remote 
>system. However when the system goes down the Nagios status page still 
>shows a green status for the DNS servers
>
>$USER1$/check_dns -H www.winnipeg.ca -s $HOSTADDRESS$ -t 60 -a 198.163.51.161
>
>Am using this command for the check_dns and passing as a parameter the 
>canonical name for the IP address via $HOSTADDRESS$. When the system goes 
>down Nagios shows "address is null".
>
>Any suggestion on how to have the program show a RED status for the DNS 
>server?

I haven't seen any suggestions regarding this problem. Is it a known one?



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