[Nagiosplug-devel] check_dns

[Awais Ahmad]

I submitted check_httpperf.pl about 6 months ago. Submitted
check_xml-rpc.pl last week. No one has looked at either of them yet. 


Awais.






On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 10:19, Awais Ahmad wrote:
> Sure, I'll do this, this weekend. BTW, are the resolver libs not 
> available via libc on FreeBSD?
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Awais
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 08:26, Voon, Ton wrote:
> > Awais,
> > 
> > I had a go at this yesterday, but have to admit abject failure. I couldn't
> > get your patch to r1.3.1 to compile correctly on my MacOSX system, but I
> > think it is running bind 9 and there are some compatibility #defines I think
> > I need to set. 
> > 
> > Got further on SF's FreeBSD system with these changes:
> > 
> > - compile with -lresolv
> > - put an if (target) around the _res.nscount to only set the nameserver if
> > specified with -s
> > 
> > But I am absolutely baffled how to expand out the DNS reply - too
> > complicated for me! I specifically want to catch multiple IP addresses
> > (ibm.com is a good example) which is in the current functionality.
> > 
> > Could you provide a patch to HEAD? 
> > 
> > Ton
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Awais Ahmad [mailto:awais at eurobell.net] 
> > Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 12:37 PM
> > To: Karl DeBisschop
> > Cc: NagiosPlug Devel
> > Subject: Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] check_dns
> > 
> > 
> > I have done this with the stable version of check_dns.c but never had
> > the time to carry the changes across to HEAD. The patch is attached.
> > 
> > Although the main resolver lib functions are available, via
> > GLIBC/LIBC,the response parsing routines (ns_parserr and friends) are
> > only visible to the resolver lib functions themselves. 
> > I've had to roll my own. 
> > 
> > I've tested on Debian GNU/Linux, Redhat GNU/Linux, FreeBSD current/4.X
> > and Solaris 7.
> > 
> > 
> > Awais Ahmad
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 03:52, Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 22:34, Ton Voon wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I'll have a go at this change, but only after I can get check_dns to 
> > > > use the resolver routines instead of nslookup first. Most of 
> > > > check_dns.c looks like it is parsing for error messages in nslookup!
> > > 
> > > Makes sense to me. That was the direction we wanted to go anyway, to use
> > > the resolver instead of parsing scripts.
> > > 
> > > IIRC, the resolver is covered by POSIX, so we should have much less
> > > platform-specific cruft once we do that.
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Karl
> > > 
> > > 
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