DNS check - please help

[Nibin V M]

Hello,

Thanks to all. After a tcpdump, I can confirm that it query the name servers
in resolv.conf after the -s server.

@Mathew, hope you will share it with us soon :)

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Matthew Pounsett <matt at conundrum.com>wrote:

>
> On 2011/07/18, at 13:45, Joerg Linge wrote:
>
> >> The behaviour of nslookup is pretty terrible... it's not really
> advisable to use it for any DNS diagnostics.  I'm working on a replacement
> for check_dns which does its own DNS work rather than relying on shelling
> out to something else... unfortunately, I'm not much of a C coder, so it's
> in Perl.  If I can get permission from my boss I'll share it back to the
> community as a replacement for what's there now.
> >
> > i use check_dig for years now.
>
> Yep, check_dig is much, MUCH better, but having to fork() out again to call
> dig bugs me on a philosophical level, and is death to a nagios server that's
> mostly monitoring DNS services.  Plus, there are some additional things I'd
> like to do in my checks that don't seem possible using check_dig.
>
>
>
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Nibin.
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Nibin.V.M
Systems Integrator
PiServe.com
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