Changing the host to dns server fixed the problem. Thanks for all the help
Kamran
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| Subject: [smokeping-users] Re: DNS Probes keep timing out
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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
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> DNS: www.cnn.com: timeout (100 s) reached, killing the probe.
> DNS: www.mozilla.org: timeout (100 s) reached, killing the probe.
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> What am I doing wrong?
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> My config looks like this
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> +DNS
> binary = /opt/bind9/bin/dig
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> ++ 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
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