On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 17:04 +0200, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 09:28:22AM -0500, Lowery, Michael wrote:
I guess I don't understand the test. I was hoping that for any host, I
could perform a lookup of its own A record on the dns servers of my
choosing (or at least use the dns servers from resolv.conf). The host
where I've placed the DNS test is not a DNS server, but I would like to
verify that it's "A" record does exist.
OK, that's a different kind of test. The "dns" test is designed to
verify that a DNS server is running on the host that has this test
defined.
But you have made it extensible enough to do what he wants. I check my
records using this syntax:
0.0.0.0 ae-dns3.electric.ci.austin.tx.us #
dig=SOA:austinenergy.com,SOA:electric.ci.austin.tx.us
Yes, his DNS servers might end up with a rather long list, but the
ability to see if a particular record is resolvable is present.
The reason I want this is that we have some customers that from
time-to-time will fail to renew their domain-name, or make a DNS
change and either change the IP address for a host or drop the
hostname all together.
I would like to use this test, or another, to gather the DNS
information for the A record of a particular host so that I can
verify or deny that this is a problem.
Sounds like a reasonable thing to do, especially if you're hosting for
people without controlling their DNS setup.
I'll see if I can work that into a future version. We've got all of
the bits and pieces needed to implement it, I just have to put them
all together.
Regards,
Henrik