Check_DNS recursive

[Jay]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:04:30 +0800, nagios at mm.quex.org
<nagios at mm.quex.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 11:12:31AM -0600, Jay wrote:
> 
> > If our external DNS server is set to "recursion no;" it fails on the
> > DNS check set to "recursion yes" then the dne_check works fine. Is
> > there an easy work around ?
> 
> What hostname/s are you using in your check?  You should use a
> name that the server is willing to return an answer for when it
> is configured not to do recursion, i.e. in a zone your DNS
> server actually hosts.
> 
> If the name you're checking is hosted by that server and therefore
> should be answered regardless of the recursion setting, then it
> sounds like there's something wrong with the DNS server's setup...

The check_command in the services.cfg file is:
check_command check_dns!www.host.com
is that correct ? 
>From the command line
 ./check_dns -H www.host.com -s server.com 
works fine. 
I'm missing something?

Thanks
-J


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