[Nagiosplug-devel] check_dns problem

[Karl DeBisschop]

On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 11:21, James Fidell wrote:
> When started, nslookup tries to look up the hostname of the server
> being used for queries.  In the general case this is fine.  However,
> if it is being used to do a lookup on a server which doesn't allow
> recursive queries and isn't authoritative for its own reverse address
> then the lookup times out and check_dns reports an error when there
> may be none.
> 
> I've hacked check_dns.c to use "host" for the moment (since nslookup
> is deprecated anyway).  Is there an alternative work-around for this
> problem (I guess check_dns should really do it's own DNS check rather
> than relying on any external application).

Did you try check_dig?

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Karl DeBisschop <karl at debisschop.net>