[Xymon] Unusual dnsreg behaviour

[Bruce Ferrell]

I had this problem.  Not all whois commands are alike and behave differently. 

On my scientific linux install (jwhois), I had to swap in the whois from OpenSUSE.

sigh

On 08/30/2016 05:13 PM, Phil Crooker wrote:
>
> It looks like the EXPIRESTRING compilation is empty for those domains:
>
>
> EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i "Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:|expir.*date:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2- | sed -e's/^[     ]*//'`"
>
>
> Try running it manually with the various parts, eg: 
>
> whois somedomain.co.uk | egrep -i "Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:|expir.*date:"
>
> and see that at each pipe point (the '|') it actually returns something. Compare outputs between those domains that work and those that don't. Probably the whois output is
> different for the domains that don't work and you'll probably need to adjust the above filter.
>
>
> cheers, Phil
>
>
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> *Subject:* [Xymon] Unusual dnsreg behaviour
>  
> Hi all.
>
> I have recently added in the dnsreg script from the xymon.com <http://xymon.com> site https://www.xymon.com/xymon-cgi/viewconf.sh?dnsreg All appears to be working well apart from
> I am getting some strange behaviour for a couple of domains. 
>
> For some domains I am simply not receiving any data back, which is causing the test to show red with the following line of information:
>
> Domain somedomain.co.uk <http://somedomain.co.uk> expires on 
>
> Normally I would see the expiration date here, but it simply doesn't show. I have tested the domain using whois on the server, and this all returns fine. So I'm not too sure why
> this is happening. Any ideas?
>
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