# 3rd post re problems

[jeff vier]

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 13:31, Joe wrote:
> >I am monitoring a remote network via a Suse box on a broadbank connection. I
> >am using the following command to check two DNS servers on the remote host:
> >I have noticed that some times that Nagios 1.2 with the 1.3.o plugisn has
> >shown that the DNS servers are find even though the connection to these
> >servers from my linux box is down. Nagios shows that the address of
> >www.yahoo.com resolves to <null> yet there is no error condition raised for
> >the DNS check even though the other service checks for the server are showing
> >that the link to the server is down.
> >Why is DNS check above not  always raising the error condition?
> Nagios is doing it again. The DNS servers went down and the remote 
> monitoring computer shows:
> DNS ok - 10 seconds response time, Address(es) is/are (null)

have you tried the -a option?



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