timeouts when using secondary dns

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, stucky wrote:

> Guys
> 
> I use the check_by_ssh plugin for most of my stuff and I noticed that if the
> primary nameserver is unavailable nagios starts freaking out.
> All of a sudden all plugins time out. I tested it using the 'host' command
> and it only takes about 1 second longer to lookup hosts using the secondary
> nameserver.
> The default timeout for check_by_ssh is 10 seconds. I cranked it up to 30
> and still I get timeouts. I'm not sure I understand that one.

You can try yo add the nagios host to the host file of one of the servers 
you are monitoring to see which end suffers the most from a freaked out 
DNS.

Hugo.

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