[Top][All Lists]   Re: set up monin and mydns dns-server  From:
monit user Subject: Re: set up monin and mydns dns-server Date:
Wed, 05 Sep 2007 09:16:10 -0700 User-agent: Thunderbird
(Macintosh/20070728)  Many (most?) non-bind DNS server software
will fail the dns protocol test in monit as it is written
(dbjdns, mydns and a couple others that I tested so far), AFAIK
because bind includes a "default" referral response to a query
about the root servers. Even the great and powerful Paul Vixie
admitted that this is something that most servers shouldn't be
doing and others pointed out non-broken client resolver
libraries will reject/throw out such a response.  The
relationship between BIND and some of the DNS RFCs act a good
example of why it sucks to take a certain application's behavior
and codify it as a set of standards, as we are currently
experiencing with OOXML.  To work across all DNS servers, the
test should have the following options:  Protocol: UDP or TCP
Query Type: A, NS, etc and if you care about th