DNS plugin problem

[Dan Hopkins]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Smith [mailto:andy at strugglers.net]
> Sent: 25 January 2005 12:04
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] DNS plugin problem
> 
> 
> 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?

Yep, you're quite right. In my hurry to cuss check_dns, I missed you're
properly useful suggestion. 

Apologies,
Dan 


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