Weird DNS error reported from check_dns

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Patrick McShane wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> We occasionally see the error below in our nagios event log reported from a
> DNS check of one of our Sun Solaris machines.   Any way to fix this?  A new
> version and bind and bind utils maybe?
> 
> [09-06-2003 14:36:23] SERVICE ALERT: ns6;DNS;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;DNS CRITICAL -
> '/usr/bin/nslookup -sil' output parsing exited with no address
> 
> Thanks,
> Pat
> 
> 

Looks like nslookup was hanging in attempting to resolve an address. May 
be either a local resource issue or delay in response from dns server.

try check_dig to see it helps.

-- 
-sg



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