DNS plugin problem

[Skylar Thompson]

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 06:14:17PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 23, 2005 at 03:14:02PM -0500, Skylar Thompson wrote:
> > I'm using the check_dns plugin to monitor our BIND DNS servers. Many times
> > a day, the plugin marks one BIND server as down with this error message:
> > 
> > SERVICE ALERT: hopper;DNS;CRITICAL;HARD;3;DNS CRITICAL - '/usr/bin/nslookup
> > -sil' output parsing exited with no address
> > 
> > It then comes back up about 10 minutes later:
> > 
> > SERVICE ALERT: hopper;DNS;OK;HARD;3;DNS ok - 1 seconds response time,
> > Address(es) is/are 216.109.118.74
> 
> Does the problem go away if you modify your check to use check_dig
> instead?

Does check_dig use only the DNS servers listed on the Nagios server? The
DNS server in question is used by a separate subnet, but we're responsible
for monitoring their machines and services.

-- 
-- Skylar Thompson (skylar at cs.earlham.edu)
-- http://www.cs.earlham.edu/~skylar/
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