Antwort: Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] check_dns: DNS WARNING - nslookup returned error status
Ton Voon
ton.voon at altinity.com
Fri Sep 2 09:17:23 CEST 2005
On 2 Sep 2005, at 16:02, srunschke at abit.de wrote:
> nagiosplug-devel-admin at lists.sourceforge.net schrieb am 02.09.2005
> 12:54:22:
>
>
>> i'm not sure that annoyance == urgency. we're currently (albeit
>> slowly) in the process of making the popen/spopen calls obsolete
>> by way of a much more safe/efficient/clean architecture, but this
>> particular patch is small and straightforward enough that i'll go
>> ahead
>> and commit it to head and we can decide later whether it warrants
>> a new
>> 1.4 series release.
>>
>
> Does that mean I can relay my boss to you next time he comes to
> me screaming like "WTF IS THIS SHIT?! I am getting like 10 mails
> every 5 minutes on my Blackberry saying our DNS is WARNING!
> Do we have a problem? If not, get me rid of those mails. NOW!"
>
> ;-)
>
> I am monitoring our 10 DNS Servers and now you go figure how
> much mail those produce... Since I was unable to stop them, I
> had to disable mail on WARNING states for DNS - which is NOT
> a good solution by itself.
>
> Btw, those messages started popping up after upgrading to new
> state-of-the-art hardware and RHES4.
>
I agree this is not a good state of affairs, which is why I am
prepared to create a new release when we have a good fix for this.
Peter Pramberger has provided a 2nd patch which I can test from
Monday and Sean Finney and Andreas Ericsson are looking into it too
through their new routines for running external commands.
This definitely looks like a change that Redhat have made to their
kernel (confirmed by your server upgrade), so it was really outside
of our hands. I'm surprised we haven't had more complaints about this
because it must affect every external call....
Ton
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