sorry forgot to mention - yes it's RHEL4. Hmm ok I will try the links. Thx <div>On 4/5/06, joshua sahala <<a href="mailto:jejs+lists@sahala.org">jejs+lists@sahala.org </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On (2006-04-05 10:57), stucky wrote: > > I was using check_dns before but it would constantly give me random timeout > alerts although dns is fine. Considering that nslookup is being phased out > anyways I decided to give check_dig a try. > It works better but seems to have a bug related to the warning timeouts. > Check this out : is this on some RedHat variant bychance? there was a known RH kernel bug that was supposedly fixed, but my RHES4 still suffers from this same problem. I use check_dns.pl instead: <a href="http://www.hannes-schulz.de/?doc=proj&proj=nagios">http://www.hannes-schulz.de/?doc=proj&proj=nagios</a> <a href="http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Networking.53.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1%5Bp_view%5D=27"> http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Networking.53.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1%5Bp_view%5D=27</a> hth /joshua - -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. - Douglas Adams - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFENCm3Jr8VjiIHVH0RAn6jAKDUvO51XHqGYKfujk0yTekLEYjjYQCgtWpY wrFkmo2Zo39OjW0JoYFnf5g= =LqbT -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </blockquote></div> -- stucky