[Nagiosplug-devel] check_udp doesn't work on nagios 1.1

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H Jeremy,
Thanks for the update.
Just wondering if there is an alternative or do I just forget about udp
checks for the moment until the
problems are sorted?

Cheers,
Paraic
www.host.ie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy T. Bouse" <jeremy+nagios at undergrid.net>
To: "Paraic OCeallaigh" <paraic at novara.ie>
Cc: <nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2003 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] check_udp doesn't work on nagios 1.1


> Paraic,
>
> If you would take a look at the bug report #731467 (when the
> SourceForge site comes back from maintenance) you would find that the
> check_udp and check_udp2 are both reported as having problems and appear
> to need a possible total re-write to get them functioning properly as
> UDP packets and services do not respond in the same manner as TCP
> packets due to the nature of UDP packets not using the handshaking to
> establish a connection as TCP does...
>
> Regards,
> Jeremy
>
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 01:50:01PM +0100, Paraic OCeallaigh wrote:
> > Hi
> > it looks like check_udp is broken in particular for the port I'm
checking -
> > syslog, port 514.
> > Here's the output regardless of what host info or port number I use:
> >
> > nagios:/usr/local/nagios/etc# ../libexec/check_udp -H 172.16.3.10 -p 514
> > Host name was not supplied
> > Usage: check_udp -H <host_address> [-p port] [-w warn_time] [-c
crit_time]
> >          [-e expect] [-s send] [-t to_sec] [-v]
> >
> > nagios:/usr/local/nagios/etc# ../libexec/check_udp -H 172.16.1.10 -p
37 -v
> > Host name was not supplied
> > Usage: check_udp -H <host_address> [-p port] [-w warn_time] [-c
crit_time]
> >          [-e expect] [-s send] [-t to_sec] [-v]
> >
> > This seems to be the only feedback I can generate from the check_udp
command
> > regardless what I put into it.
> >
> > Let me know if theres a fix or if its scheduled for the next release.
> >
> > Great job with Nagios in general though...cracking app - esp the SSL
> > implementation in nrpe 2.0. Nice one.
> >
> > Rgds,
> > Paraic
> > www.host.ie
> >
> >
> >
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