[Nagiosplug-devel] check_dns problem

[Subhendu Ghosh]

Plans are to switch from nslookup to host.  I doubt whether we will 
actually do our own dns check (raw packets) anytime soon, unless there is 
some coding effort.

-sg

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, James Fidell wrote:

> 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
> 
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