[Nagiosplug-devel] check_dns

[Awais Ahmad]

BTW the patch is against Nagios plugins 1.3.1.

Awais


On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 12:36, Awais Ahmad wrote:
> 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
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> 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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> > 
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