DNS check - please help

Matthew Pounsett matt at conundrum.com
Mon Jul 18 19:57:31 CEST 2011


On 2011/07/18, at 13:45, Joerg Linge wrote:

>> The behaviour of nslookup is pretty terrible... it's not really advisable to use it for any DNS diagnostics.  I'm working on a replacement for check_dns which does its own DNS work rather than relying on shelling out to something else... unfortunately, I'm not much of a C coder, so it's in Perl.  If I can get permission from my boss I'll share it back to the community as a replacement for what's there now.
> 
> i use check_dig for years now.

Yep, check_dig is much, MUCH better, but having to fork() out again to call dig bugs me on a philosophical level, and is death to a nagios server that's mostly monitoring DNS services.  Plus, there are some additional things I'd like to do in my checks that don't seem possible using check_dig.



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