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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