domain hijacking: using Nagios to monitor 100s (possibly 1000s) of domains / hosts

[Alain Williams]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 12:53:57PM -0700, Rogelio Bastardo wrote:
> I've got several hundred important domains that need to be checked for
> domain hijacking.  I'm assuming that this is as easy as "check_dns -H
> domain.com -s (nameserver) -A (expected IP)"
> How well will method scale to several thousand?
> 
> Someone I know recently said that he has to worry about close to 300,000
> domains getting possibly hijacked. Is this beyond Nagios at this point?

Is nagios the right sort of tool for this ?
Would you not be better writing a perl script to do this ?

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