[hobbit] Question about dns test

[Daniel J McDonald]

On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 17:04 +0200, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 09:28:22AM -0500, Lowery, Michael wrote:
> 
> > I guess I don't understand the test.  I was hoping that for any host, I
> > could perform a lookup of its own A record on the dns servers of my
> > choosing (or at least use the dns servers from resolv.conf).  The host
> > where I've placed the DNS test is not a DNS server, but I would like to
> > verify that it's "A" record does exist.  
> 
> OK, that's a different kind of test. The "dns" test is designed to
> verify that a DNS server is running on the host that has this test
> defined.

But you have made it extensible enough to do what he wants.  I check my
records using this syntax:
0.0.0.0         ae-dns3.electric.ci.austin.tx.us        #
dig=SOA:austinenergy.com,SOA:electric.ci.austin.tx.us

Yes, his DNS servers might end up with a rather long list, but the
ability to see if a particular record is resolvable is present.


> 
> > The reason I want this is that we have some customers that from
> > time-to-time will fail to renew their domain-name, or make a DNS
> > change and either change the IP address for a host or drop the
> > hostname all together.
> >
> > I would like to use this test, or another, to gather the DNS
> > information for the A record of a particular host so that I can
> > verify or deny that this is a problem.
> 
> Sounds like a reasonable thing to do, especially if you're hosting for
> people without controlling their DNS setup.
> 
> I'll see if I can work that into a future version. We've got all of
> the bits and pieces needed to implement it, I just have to put them
> all together.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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