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DNS resolution duration

list Josh Luthman
Tue, 12 Feb 2008 12:03:26 -0500
Message-Id: <user-dc5d3267a545@xymon.invalid>

Just be certain we're on the same page, by local DNS we're referring to
pdnsd or bind9 being on the same box as the Hobbit daemon, correct?

On 2/12/08, Charles Goyard <user-a6cdca7046e2@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hi,

Josh Luthman wrote :
Is there any way to set the DNS resolution timeout to something
smaller?  Has anyone tried running bind9 on the Hobbit box itself and
having it hold cache locally?  I have had two instances where Hobbit
failed to resolve DNS for a completely unknown reason, even while the
DNS test on the two hosts stay green!
I use pdnsd, it greatly improves response time, especially for http
checks (I use a older, libcurl-based version of bbtest-net for http).

Some other users also use a local DNS cache with improvements.

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