On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 15:32, Kamran Siddiqui/NYLIC wrote: > I am trying to get DNS probes to work. I installed bind 9.3.0 on my solaris > box. When I run smokeping I keep getting > > DNS: www.cnn.com: timeout (100 s) reached, killing the probe. > DNS: www.mozilla.org: timeout (100 s) reached, killing the probe. > > What am I doing wrong? > > My config looks like this > > > +DNS > binary = /opt/bind9/bin/dig > > > ++ DNS > menu = DNS > title = DNS Resolution > probe = DNS > > +++ cnn > menu = www.cnn.com > title = www.cnn.com DNS Lookup > host = www.cnn.com > ++++ PROBE_CONF > lookup=www.cnn.com
What you are doing here is this: dig @www.cnn.com www.cnn.com but www.cnn.com is not a DNS server, so it will never respond, and that is why your query times out. In other words, the "host" setting is the DNS server to ask, not the name to look up. Ketil Froyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ketil.froyn.name/ -- Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Help mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/smokeping-users WebAdmin http://www.ee.ethz.ch/~slist/lsg2.cgi
