Need a DNS monitor, preferably Windows-based
Nate Campi
nate at wired.com
Fri Sep 7 03:27:31 UTC 2001
http://www.kernel.org/software/mon
Mon will not only test the DNS server but it will also check that the
serial number is sync'd up between slaves and a designated master.
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 09:47:44PM -0400, Ray Bush wrote:
>
> We use netsaint for this and many other things that need monitored.
>
> http://www.netsaint.org/
>
> Ray wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is anyone aware of a program that will periodically automatically query a
> > DNS server (BIND, in this case) and set off some kind of alert (email,
> > pager) if a valid response is not returned?
> >
> > I'm not talking about a pinger; rather something that will actually perform
> > a lookup and then complain if the server does not respond. We've got several
> > Linux BIND servers scattered around and need a better way of noticing
> > outages than having users call our Help Desk.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ray
>
>
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