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What does the 'dns' test do?

list Sebastian Auriol
Tue, 12 Mar 2019 15:58:09 +0000
Message-Id: <CAOGA450srh2n-90trcxTeS6Y3R=user-739e4998a8b7@xymon.invalid>

Yeah, I understand the difference, and now I understand why you're doing
it. :-)

Kind regards,

SebA


On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 at 15:39, John Thurston <user-ce4d79d99bab@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
On 3/12/2019 5:57 AM, SebA wrote:
I don't really understand why you would be negating the dns test on the
server, rather than just removing it altogether.
A negated test is affirming a service is _not_ accessible.
Removing the test is not caring if the service is answering.
These are two different business needs.

Even if one confirms by some other means that a firewall product is
running, there is only one way to confirm that product is doing its job.
One must attempt to gain entry and see that access is denied.

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