Re: set up monin and mydns dns-server

[monit user]

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 the exact value of the response rather than the fact 
that there was or was not a response from the server an "expect" or "checksum" 
section for checking the response.

Can this go on the list? http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/doc/next.php
or how do things get on the list?

How many hours do you think it would take to add a parameterized dns test?

Samuel Vogel wrote:
> I would really like to do this, but actually I can only code python and 
> php and my C skills hardly can accomplish more than writing a few if's 
> and initializing variables...
>
> I could provide alle the infos somebody of the mydns team would need to 
> accomplish this task. Since a DNS check is allready there, I'd hope 
> there is only a small problem, that needs to be fixed.
>
> Regards,
> Samy
>
> Jan-Henrik Haukeland schrieb:
> > On 5. sep. 2007, at 08.07, Samuel Vogel wrote:
> >
> > > The logs point me to the Porblem, that mydns somehow fails the DNS 
> > > Test, even thou it answers all querys normaly
> >
> > An excellent opportunity for you to create a patch of monit's dns test 
> > @ protocol/dns.c :-)
> >
> >
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