[hobbit] DNS tests

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Wed Aug 16 07:29:25 CEST 2006


On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 07:07:34PM -0400, Epp, Matthew Contractor PEO EIS AKO wrote:
> I have a DNS test that is returning a NOT ok message, however a dig/nslookup
> against it is working just fine. I ran a bbcmd test and all I see for debug
> output is:
> 
> 2006-08-15 22:52:54 Adding to combo msg: status dns01,[snip].dns red <!--
> [flags:ordastLe] --> Tue Aug 15 22:51:36 2006 dns NOT ok
> 
> Is there more info I can get to tell me exactly why this test is failing?

The "dig" command equivalent of the standard dns test in Hobbit is

    dig @your.server.name your.server.name A

i.e. an A record lookup for the DNS servers' own hostname.

So - does that work?


Regards,
Henrik




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