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Unusual dnsreg behaviour

list Phil Crooker
Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:13:06 +0000
Message-Id: <user-1fe6fa41acc7@xymon.invalid>

It looks like the EXPIRESTRING compilation is empty for those domains:


EXPIRESTRING="`whois $DOMAIN | egrep -i "Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:|expir.*date:" | head -n 1 | cut -d: -f2- | sed -e's/^[     ]*//'`"


Try running it manually with the various parts, eg:

whois somedomain.co.uk | egrep -i "Expires.*:|Expiration.*:|Renewal.*:|expir.*date:"

and see that at each pipe point (the '|') it actually returns something. Compare outputs between those domains that work and those that don't. Probably the whois output is different for the domains that don't work and you'll probably need to adjust the above filter.


cheers, Phil


From: Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Richard Jones <user-6806fa693bf5@xymon.invalid>
Sent: Tuesday, 30 August 2016 11:56 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Unusual dnsreg behaviour

Hi all.

I have recently added in the dnsreg script from the xymon.com<http://xymon.com>; site https://www.xymon.com/xymon-cgi/viewconf.sh?dnsreg All appears to be working well apart from I am getting some strange behaviour for a couple of domains.

For some domains I am simply not receiving any data back, which is causing the test to show red with the following line of information:

Domain somedomain.co.uk<http://somedomain.co.uk>; expires on

Normally I would see the expiration date here, but it simply doesn't show. I have tested the domain using whois on the server, and this all returns fine. So I'm not too sure why this is happening. Any ideas?

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