[Xymon] secondary/slave dns server monitoring

[Jeremy Laidman]

The dns test performs a lookup against the DNS server.  By default, it
queries the server's own hostname A record, but the record name and
type in the request can be adjusted.  I use this to test/time several
DNS servers, some of which don't run any Xymon agents.  More details
in "man hosts.cfg".

On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 7:30 AM, Naveen Nathan <naveen at lastninja.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When specifying dns tests in the hosts.cfg file, does xymon perform a
> dns/dig lookup to the server IP address, or is it a lookup using the
> resolver of the server hosting xymon?
>
> I want to construct some tests to ensure that DNS is active/resolving
> for a secondary/slave DNS servers without requiring the server to run
> the agent.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Naveen Nathan
>
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