Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios checks and DNS queries

2008-12-03 Thread Steve Burton
Dirk H. Schulz wrote: Hi folks, I have two servers running Nagios, one is 2.3.1 on Debian, the other 3.0.5 on CentOS. With both I have a peculiar problem: Both of the servers have 3 different nameserves in /etc/resolv.conf, but when the first nameserver fails, then more than half of the

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios checks and DNS queries

2008-12-03 Thread Sean McAfee
Steve Burton wrote: Dirk, my solution was to run a slave name server on the Nagios server itself , restricted to only answer queries from localhost. Steve. Why not set something like options timeout:1 attempts:1 in resolv.conf? From man resolv.conf:* timeout:*/n/ sets the amount of time

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios checks and DNS queries

2008-12-03 Thread Steve Burton
Sean McAfee wrote: Steve Burton wrote: Dirk, my solution was to run a slave name server on the Nagios server itself , restricted to only answer queries from localhost. Steve. Why not set something like options timeout:1 attempts:1 in resolv.conf? From man resolv.conf:*

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios checks and DNS queries

2008-12-03 Thread Sean McAfee
Steve Burton wrote: Sean, I reason I set up the slave server was so my nagios instance could monitor the 'real' DNS servers by name and check the host and other services on those hosts (they're Windows DCs) even if (or especially if) the DNS service had failed. That makes sense. We make

[Nagios-users] Nagios checks and DNS queries

2008-12-02 Thread Dirk H. Schulz
Hi folks, I have two servers running Nagios, one is 2.3.1 on Debian, the other 3.0.5 on CentOS. With both I have a peculiar problem: Both of the servers have 3 different nameserves in /etc/resolv.conf, but when the first nameserver fails, then more than half of the service checks fail (plugin