DNS plugin problem

[Andy Smith]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:42:58AM -0000, Dan Hopkins wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andy Smith [mailto:andy at strugglers.net]
> > Does the problem go away if you modify your check to use check_dig
> > instead?
> > 
> > (nslookup is deprecated, although that probably isn't your problem
> > let's stop using it anyway)
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I doubt it's Skylar's choice to use nslookup - the problem is that the
> standard Nagios DNS plugin is dreadful. It parses nslookup output, badly,
> and will either work, display parsing errors, or even more fun just plain
> segfault.

Well that's why I suggested check_dig; it parses dig output and can
do anything that check_dns does, can't it?
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