[Nagiosplug-devel] check_dns.c

[Matt Pounsett]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Awais Ahmad wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone see any utility in rewriting check_dns.c to use gethostbyname(),
> instead of nslookup?. 
> Also, is just just querying for an A record really enough functionality for
> a plugin which checks name servers?

I was thinking about this myself the other day...  check_dns isn't really
useful for me, since most of my nameservers are non-recursive, and only hand
out NS records (the .ca roots).  

I have a custom plugin written in perl using Net::DNS which is really only
useful to me.. it checks serial numbers to make sure regular updates are
happening when expected .. but the Net::DNS module is easily powerful enough
to write a replacement for check_dns.
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