Now that I got the DNS probe to work (with your help, of course) I am noticing that somehow smokeping is reporting higher latency and packet loss. It is showing anywhere from 2ms to 20ms. So I tried to run dig from command line for hosts that are giving high latency and I consistently get 2-3ms reported. I am using bind 9.3.0 utilities on Solaris 2.8. Here is the dig output
# ./dig www.cisco.com @10.10.10.10 ; <<>> DiG 9.3.0 <<>> www.cisco.com @10.10.10.10 ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 1148 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;www.cisco.com. IN A ;; ANSWER SECTION: www.cisco.com. 30238 IN A 198.133.219.25 ;; Query time: 3 msec ;; SERVER: 10.10.10.10#53(10.10.10.10) ;; WHEN: Wed Nov 17 12:11:31 2004 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 47 Is this normal for smokeping to see higher response time than from command line. The packet loss is about 5%-8%. My config looks straight forward +DNS binary = /opt/bind9/bin/dig + Services menu = Services title = Check Service Availability ### Collect CNJ DNS performance ++ DNS-CNJ menu = DNS-CNJ title = DNS Resolution Through CNJ probe = DNS +++ Cisco menu = Cisco title = www.cisco.com DNS Lookup host = 10.10.10.10 ++++ PROBE_CONF lookup=www.cisco.com Is there something I can do to tweak it to at least fix the packet loss problem? I am using tsmoke.pl and it shows DNS services to be up only around 85% or so. I'd like to see the number in the 98% or above range. Kamran -- 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
