[Nagiosplug-devel] check_dns problem

[James Fidell]

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).

James