[Xymon] Reverse DNS lookup check not working

Jeremy Laidman jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au
Mon Apr 8 03:32:23 CEST 2013


On 8 April 2013 00:34, Jeremy Laidman <jlaidman at rebel-it.com.au> wrote:

> I'm not in a position to check until tomorrow, but I'm confident that I
> successfully test for the localhost address like so
>
>   DNS=PTR:1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa
>

I was wrong in the IP address that I test, but correct in the format and
the fact that it works.  You should be able to do PTR record checks by
formatting in this "in-addr.arpa" format.  An easy way to get this is from
the output of "dig -x" which shows the question section in the
"in-addr.arpa" format (and also in the answer section if it resolves).

J
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