[Nagiosplug-devel] How do we report a possible bug (in check_ping)?

Eddie F bigedd at gmail.com
Fri Jun 20 15:47:00 CEST 2008


This starts pinging almost instantly...
# /bin/ping -n -U -w 60 -c 5 nagios.org

check_ping takes several seconds to start pinging.


On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Holger Weiss <holger at cis.fu-berlin.de>
wrote:

>
>
> Is there some identifiable point during the execution of the above
> plugin command where the plugin or ping(1) seems to be really slow?  Is
> running the command
>
> $ /bin/ping -n -U -w 60 -c 5 nagios.org
>
> manually significantly faster?
>
> > dig nagios.org returns -> Query time: 3 msec
>
> dig(1) queries a name server directly while your system's resolver might
> use stuff like nscd(8) or whatever.
>
> Holger
>
>
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