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DNS Test - No Record Lookup

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list Michael S. Fisher · Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:28:29 -0700 ·

Hi,

I have configured one of my DNS servers to run the dns test native to
xymon. I have the directive "dns" specified in the bb-hosts file and the
test shows up as a column however the test does NOT perform a lookup of the
servers dns A record as it should. All i get is the "Service DNS on
SERVER.DOMAIN.COM is OK  (up) and then a graph immediately below.

I have also tired using the dns=a:server.domain.com with no luck either.

I have posted a screen shot on PhotoBucket -
http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx256/mfisher_xymon/dns.jpg

Does anybody have any insight as to why the dns lookups are not being ran?
list Rich Smrcina · Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:40:22 -0500 ·
quoted from Michael S. Fisher
user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid wrote:
Hi,

I have configured one of my DNS servers to run the dns test native to xymon. I have the directive "dns" specified in the bb-hosts file and the test shows up as a column however the test does NOT perform a lookup of the servers dns A record as it should. All i get is the "Service DNS on SERVER.DOMAIN.COM is OK (up) and then a graph immediately below.

I have also tired using the dns=a:server.domain.com with no luck either.

I have posted a screen shot on PhotoBucket - http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx256/mfisher_xymon/dns.jpg

Does anybody have any insight as to why the dns lookups are not being ran?
I don't have a Xymon system handy to check, does the doc say it does a lookup of the A record?

A check of the list archive uncovers this (which I remembered because I was part of the thread :) ):

http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2006/06/msg00112.html

-- 
Rich Smrcina
list Michael S. Fisher · Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:42:42 -0700 ·
Based upon the configs on www.xymon.com, it should lookup on it self..but i
have also tried manually add the dns record check and no dice as well
list Craig Cook · Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:53:54 -0400 ·
Can you post your bb-hosts line?

What happens when you do something like this:

dig @dns_server_in_question.example.com  dns_server_in_question.example.com


Craig
list David Hay Currie · Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:03:57 -0400 ·
Just as Craig suggested, first check the server itself. Can it resolve
DNS?, do you have the correct DNS addresses in your IP configuration?
Can you do a dig/dnslookup using the servers in your configuration?

Also, I tried opening the link but I was not able to see the picture,
but then, it might be my content filtering
quoted from Rich Smrcina

 
From: user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 4:28 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup

 
Hi,

I have configured one of my DNS servers to run the dns test native to
xymon. I have the directive "dns" specified in the bb-hosts file and the
test shows up as a column however the test does NOT perform a lookup of
the servers dns A record as it should. All i get is the "Service DNS on
SERVER.DOMAIN.COM is OK (up) and then a graph immediately below.

I have also tired using the dns=a:server.domain.com with no luck either.

I have posted a screen shot on PhotoBucket -
http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx256/mfisher_xymon/dns.jpg

Does anybody have any insight as to why the dns lookups are not being
ran?
list Michael S. Fisher · Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:55:01 -0700 ·
##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows:

page solaris Solaris
192.168.X.X   solaris                                   # Name:"SOLARIS"
dns nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps


##############the dig @dns_server_in_question.example.com
dns_server_in_question.example.com is as follows:

[xymon at xymon ~]$ dig @solairs.domain.com solaris.domain.com

; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> @solairs.domain.com solairs.domain.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 50561
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;solaris.domain.com.                 IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
solairs.domain.com.          259200  IN      A       192.168.X.X

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
domain.com.                259200  IN      NS      solairs.domain.com.

;; Query time: 2 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 09:53:20 2009
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 61


                                                                                        Craig Cook                                                                 <Craig.Cook at carqu                                                          est.com>                                                   To                                        "user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid" <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>                09/23/2009 07:39                                           cc              AM                                                                                                                               Subject                                        Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record                Please respond to         Lookup                                            user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
quoted from Craig Cook


Can you post your bb-hosts line?

What happens when you do something like this:

dig @dns_server_in_question.example.com  dns_server_in_question.example.com


Craig
list Michael S. Fisher · Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:56:17 -0700 ·
The xymon server can correctly resolve dns and i have included the dig
command in a recent reply. For some reason, it just doesnt include it in
the dns test....


                                                                                        "David Hay                                                                 Currie"                                                                    <dhaycurrie at leisu                                          To              refitness.com>            <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>                                                                                            cc              09/23/2009 09:53                                                           AM                                                    Subject                                        RE: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record                                          Lookup                                           Please respond to                                                           user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
quoted from David Hay Currie


Just as Craig suggested, first check the server itself. Can it resolve
DNS?, do you have the correct DNS addresses in your IP configuration? Can
you do a dig/dnslookup using the servers in your configuration?
Also, I tried opening the link but I was not able to see the picture, but
then, it might be my content filtering


From: user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 4:28 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup


Hi,

I have configured one of my DNS servers to run the dns test native to
xymon. I have the directive "dns" specified in the bb-hosts file and the
test shows up as a column however the test does NOT perform a lookup of the
servers dns A record as it should. All i get is the "Service DNS on
SERVER.DOMAIN.COM is OK (up) and then a graph immediately below.

I have also tired using the dns=a:server.domain.com with no luck either.

I have posted a screen shot on PhotoBucket -
http://i761.photobucket.com/albums/xx256/mfisher_xymon/dns.jpg

Does anybody have any insight as to why the dns lookups are not being ran?
list Craig Cook · Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:17:38 -0400 ·
quoted from Michael S. Fisher
##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows:

page solaris Solaris
192.168.X.X   solaris                                   # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps
You are not using FQDN.

Try (as the xymon user on the xymon host)

dig @solaris solaris

You may not be resolving correctly.  Confirm /etc/resolv.conf is correct

Try adding your domain to bb-hosts

192.168.X.X   solaris.example.com  # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps

Also try removing  ' Name:"SOLARIS" '  (I don't think that will matter though)


Craig
list Michael S. Fisher · Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:26:14 -0700 ·
I have chanegd the bb-hosts entry to be
192.168.X.X   solaris.domain.com                                   # dns
nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps

And i renamed through bb with the command   ./bb 127.0.0.1 "rename solaris
solaris.domain.com"

No dice....UGH


                                                                                        Craig Cook                                                                 <Craig.Cook at carqu                                                          est.com>                                                   To                                        "user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid" <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>                09/23/2009 01:13                                           cc              PM                                                                                                                               Subject                                        Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record                Please respond to         Lookup                                            user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
quoted from Craig Cook

##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows:

page solaris Solaris
192.168.X.X   solaris                                   # Name:"SOLARIS"
dns nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps
You are not using FQDN.

Try (as the xymon user on the xymon host)

dig @solaris solaris

You may not be resolving correctly.  Confirm /etc/resolv.conf is correct

Try adding your domain to bb-hosts

192.168.X.X   solaris.example.com  # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp telnet pop3
pop3s imap imaps

Also try removing  ‘ Name:"SOLARIS” ‘  (I don’t think that will matter
though)


Craig
list Josh Luthman · Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:34:21 -0400 ·
Can you provide the output of

dig solaris @solaris

dig solaris.domain.com @solaris.domain.com

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
quoted from Michael S. Fisher


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid> wrote:
 I have chanegd the bb-hosts entry to be
192.168.X.X solaris.domain.com # dns nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps

And i renamed through bb with the command ./bb 127.0.0.1 "rename solaris
solaris.domain.com"

No dice....UGH


[image: Inactive hide details for Craig Cook ---09/23/2009 01:13:51
PM--->##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows: >]Craig Cook
---09/23/2009 01:13:51 PM--->##############The bb-hosts file entry is as
follows: >


    *Craig Cook <user-850f03189cf7@xymon.invalid>*

            09/23/2009 01:13 PM
             Please respond to
            user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid


To

"user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid" <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
cc
quoted from Michael S. Fisher


Subject

Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup
##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows:

page solaris Solaris
192.168.X.X solaris # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap
imaps
You are not using FQDN.

Try (as the xymon user on the xymon host)

dig @solaris solaris

You may not be resolving correctly. Confirm /etc/resolv.conf is correct

Try adding your domain to bb-hosts

192.168.X.X solaris.example.com # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp telnet pop3
pop3s imap imaps

Also try removing ‘ Name:"SOLARIS” ‘ (I don’t think that will matter
though)


Craig
list Michael S. Fisher · Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:40:11 -0700 ·
[xymon at xymon]$ dig solaris @solaris

; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> solaris @solaris
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 2107
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;solaris.                         IN      A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
.                       10800   IN      SOA     A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET.
NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2009092201 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 39 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 13:36:58 2009
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 98

[xymon at xymon]$ dig @solaris.domain.com solaris.domain.com

; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> @solaris.domain.com solaris.domain.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9661
quoted from Michael S. Fisher
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;solaris.domain.com.                 IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:

solaris.domain.com.          259200  IN      A       192.168.X.X

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
domain.com.                259200  IN      NS      solaris.domain.com.

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 13:37:05 2009
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 61


                                                                                        Josh Luthman                                                               <josh at imaginenetw                                                          orksllc.com>                                               To                                        user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid                                   09/23/2009 01:34                                           cc              PM                                                                                                                               Subject                                        Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record                Please respond to         Lookup                                            user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
quoted from Josh Luthman


Can you provide the output of

dig solaris @solaris

dig solaris.domain.com @solaris.domain.com

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid> wrote:
  I have chanegd the bb-hosts entry to be
  192.168.X.X solaris.domain.com # dns nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps

  And i renamed through bb with the command ./bb 127.0.0.1 "rename solaris
  solaris.domain.com"

  No dice....UGH


  Inactive hide details for Craig Cook ---09/23/2009 01:13:51
  PM--->##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows: >Craig Cook
  ---09/23/2009 01:13:51 PM--->##############The bb-hosts file entry is as
  follows: >


                                                                                                    Craig Cook <                                                               Craig.Cook at ca                                                              rquest.com>                                                                                                               To                                                                                                     09/23/2009                 "user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid" <                              01:13 PM                   user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>                                                                                                                                                           cc                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Subject            Please respond to                                                           user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid                          Re: [hobbit] DNS Test                                                      - No Record Lookup                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
quoted from Josh Luthman

##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows:

page solaris Solaris
192.168.X.X solaris # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap
  imaps
  You are not using FQDN.

  Try (as the xymon user on the xymon host)

  dig @solaris solaris

  You may not be resolving correctly. Confirm /etc/resolv.conf is correct

  Try adding your domain to bb-hosts

  192.168.X.X solaris.example.com # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp telnet pop3
  pop3s imap imaps

  Also try removing ‘ Name:"SOLARIS” ‘ (I don’t think that will matter
  though)


  Craig
list Josh Luthman · Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:43:07 -0400 ·
Neither solaris or solaris.domain.com exist.  That's your problem.  You need
to fix your DNS servers (listed in /etc/resolv.conf) and add those records.
quoted from Michael S. Fisher

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM, <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid> wrote:
 [xymon at xymon]$ dig solaris @solaris

; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> solaris @solaris

;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: *NXDOMAIN*, id: 2107
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;solaris. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
. 10800 IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2009092201 1800
900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 39 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 13:36:58 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 98

[xymon at xymon]$ dig @solaris.domain.com solaris.domain.com

; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> @solaris.domain.com solaris.domain.com
; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: *NOERROR*, id: 9661
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;solaris.domain.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
solaris.domain.com. 259200 IN A 192.168.X.X

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
domain.com. 259200 IN NS solaris.domain.com.

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 13:37:05 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 61


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PM---Can you provide the output of


    *Josh Luthman <user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid>*

            09/23/2009 01:34 PM
quoted from Josh Luthman
             Please respond to
            user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid


To

user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
cc


Subject

Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup

Can you provide the output of

dig solaris @solaris

dig *solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>; @*solaris.domain.com
* <http://solaris.domain.com/>;
quoted from Michael S. Fisher

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, <*user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid* <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid>>
wrote:

   I have chanegd the bb-hosts entry to be

   192.168.X.X *solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>; # dns nis
quoted from Michael S. Fisher
   ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps

   And i renamed through bb with the command ./bb 127.0.0.1 "rename

   solaris *solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>";
quoted from Michael S. Fisher

   No dice....UGH


   [image: Inactive hide details for Craig Cook ---09/23/2009 01:13:51
   PM--->##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows: >]Craig Cook
   ---09/23/2009 01:13:51 PM--->##############The bb-hosts file entry is as
   follows: >


      *Craig Cook <**user-850f03189cf7@xymon.invalid* <user-850f03189cf7@xymon.invalid>*>*

                        09/23/2009 01:13 PM


 Please respond to*

**user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid* <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
  To

"*user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid* <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>" <*user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid* <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>> cc
quoted from Michael S. Fisher
 Subject

Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup

##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows:

page solaris Solaris
192.168.X.X solaris # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s
   imap imaps
   You are not using FQDN.

   Try (as the xymon user on the xymon host)

   dig @solaris solaris

   You may not be resolving correctly. Confirm /etc/resolv.conf is correct

   Try adding your domain to bb-hosts

   192.168.X.X *solaris.example.com* <http://solaris.example.com/>; #
quoted from Michael S. Fisher
   Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps

   Also try removing ‘ Name:"SOLARIS” ‘ (I don’t think that will matter
   though)


   Craig

list Michael S. Fisher · Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:47:44 -0700 ·
solaris.domain.com exists...it came back with NOERROR??
quoted from Josh Luthman


; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> @solaris.domain.com solaris.domain.com

  ; (1 server found)
  ;; global options: printcmd
  ;; Got answer:
  ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9661


  Michael S. Fisher
  ISD | Active Directory Support
  user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid
  +X XXX XXX XXXX


                                                                                        Josh Luthman                                                               <josh at imaginenetw                                                          orksllc.com>                                               To                                        user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid                                   09/23/2009 01:45                                           cc              PM                                                                                                                               Subject                                        Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record                Please respond to         Lookup                                            user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
quoted from Josh Luthman


Neither solaris or solaris.domain.com exist.  That's your problem.  You
need to fix your DNS servers (listed in /etc/resolv.conf) and add those
records.

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM, <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid> wrote:
  [xymon at xymon]$ dig solaris @solaris

  ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> solaris @solaris


  ;; global options: printcmd
  ;; Got answer:
  ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 2107
  ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;solaris. IN A

  ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
  . 10800 IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM. 2009092201
  1800 900 604800 86400

  ;; Query time: 39 msec

  ;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
  ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 13:36:58 2009
  ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 98

  [xymon at xymon]$ dig @solaris.domain.com solaris.domain.com

  ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> @solaris.domain.com solaris.domain.com

  ; (1 server found)
  ;; global options: printcmd
  ;; Got answer:
  ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9661

  ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

  ;; QUESTION SECTION:
  ;solaris.domain.com. IN A

  ;; ANSWER SECTION:
  solaris.domain.com. 259200 IN A 192.168.X.X

  ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
  domain.com. 259200 IN NS solaris.domain.com.


  ;; Query time: 1 msec
  ;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
  ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 13:37:05 2009
  ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 61


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quoted from Josh Luthman


  Can you provide the output of

  dig solaris @solaris

  dig solaris.domain.com @solaris.domain.com

  Josh Luthman
  Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
  Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
  XXXX Wayne St
  Suite XXXX
  Troy, OH XXXXX

  "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
  improbable, must be the truth."
  --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


  On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid> wrote:
        I have chanegd the bb-hosts entry to be
        192.168.X.X solaris.domain.com # dns nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap
        imaps

        And i renamed through bb with the command ./bb 127.0.0.1 "rename
        solaris solaris.domain.com"

        No dice....UGH


        Inactive hide details for Craig Cook ---09/23/2009 01:13:51
        PM--->##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows: >Craig
        Cook ---09/23/2009 01:13:51 PM--->##############The bb-hosts file
        entry is as follows: >

                                                                               Craig Cook <user-850f03189cf7@xymon.invalid>                                                                                                                                                                                             09/23/2009 01:13 PM                                                 To                                                                                                                                    "user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid" <                                                         user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>                                                                                                                                                       cc                Please respond to                                                           user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid                                                                                                                Subject                                                                                                                                    Re: [hobbit] DNS                                                           Test - No Record                                                           Lookup                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
quoted from Josh Luthman

##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows:

page solaris Solaris
192.168.X.X solaris # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s
        imap imaps
        You are not using FQDN.

        Try (as the xymon user on the xymon host)

        dig @solaris solaris

        You may not be resolving correctly. Confirm /etc/resolv.conf is
        correct

        Try adding your domain to bb-hosts

        192.168.X.X solaris.example.com # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp telnet
        pop3 pop3s imap imaps

        Also try removing ‘ Name:"SOLARIS” ‘ (I don’t think that will
        matter though)


        Craig
list Ryan Novosielski · Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:48:50 -0400 ·
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Hash: SHA1

You sure about solaris.domain.com? I see an "ANSWER" section in that
one. I figure that's the problem.

Josh Luthman wrote:
Neither solaris or solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com>;
quoted from Michael S. Fisher
exist.  That's your problem.  You need to fix your DNS servers (listed
in /etc/resolv.conf) and add those records.

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM, <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid
<mailto:user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

    [xymon at xymon]$ dig solaris @solaris

    ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> solaris @solaris


    ;; global options: printcmd
    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: *NXDOMAIN*, id: 2107
    ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;solaris. IN A

    ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:

    . 10800 IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET <http://A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET>;.
    NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM <http://NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM>;. 2009092201
quoted from Michael S. Fisher
    1800 900 604800 86400

    ;; Query time: 39 msec

    ;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
    ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 13:36:58 2009
    ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 98

    [xymon at xymon]$ dig @solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com>;
    solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com>;

    ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> @solaris.domain.com
    <http://solaris.domain.com>; solaris.domain.com
    <http://solaris.domain.com>;
quoted from Michael S. Fisher

    ; (1 server found)
    ;; global options: printcmd
    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: *NOERROR*, id: 9661

    ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

    ;; QUESTION SECTION:

    ;solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com>;. IN A

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com>;. 259200 IN A 192.168.X.X

    ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
    domain.com <http://domain.com>;. 259200 IN NS solaris.domain.com
    <http://solaris.domain.com>;.
quoted from Michael S. Fisher


    ;; Query time: 1 msec
    ;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
    ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 13:37:05 2009
    ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 61


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    01:34:55 PM---Can you provide the output of

                            *Josh Luthman <user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid

                            <mailto:user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid>>*

                            09/23/2009 01:34 PM

                            Please respond to
                            user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>

    	
    To
    	
    user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
quoted from Michael S. Fisher

    cc
    	

    Subject
    	
    Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup

    	
    Can you provide the output of

    dig solaris @solaris

    dig _solaris.domain.com_ <http://solaris.domain.com/>;
    @_solaris.domain.com_ <http://solaris.domain.com/>;

    Josh Luthman
    Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
    Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
    XXXX Wayne St
    Suite XXXX
    Troy, OH XXXXX

    "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains,
    however improbable, must be the truth."
    --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


    On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, <user-e33b4d014dce@xymon.invalid_
quoted from Michael S. Fisher
    <mailto:user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

          I have chanegd the bb-hosts entry to be
          192.168.X.X _solaris.domain.com_ <http://solaris.domain.com/>;
          # dns nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps

          And i renamed through bb with the command ./bb 127.0.0.1
          "rename solaris _solaris.domain.com_ <http://solaris.domain.com/>";

          No dice....UGH


          Inactive hide details for Craig Cook ---09/23/2009 01:13:51
          PM--->##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows:
Craig Cook ---09/23/2009 01:13:51 PM--->##############The
          bb-hosts file entry is as follows: >

                                                    *Craig Cook

                                                    <**user-58ff9398e6ba@xymon.invalid_*
                                                    <mailto:user-850f03189cf7@xymon.invalid>*>*


                                                    09/23/2009 01:13 PM


    Please respond to_
    user-978f057a4031@xymon.invalid_ <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>

    	
    To
    	
    "user-3f509a273d1e@xymon.invalid_ <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>" <user-3f509a273d1e@xymon.invalid_
quoted from Michael S. Fisher
    cc
    	
    Subject
    	
    Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup

    	
##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows:

page solaris Solaris
192.168.X.X solaris # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp telnet pop3
          pop3s imap imaps
          You are not using FQDN.

          Try (as the xymon user on the xymon host)

          dig @solaris solaris

          You may not be resolving correctly. Confirm /etc/resolv.conf
          is correct

          Try adding your domain to bb-hosts

          192.168.X.X _solaris.example.com_
          <http://solaris.example.com/>; # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp
          telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps

          Also try removing ‘ Name:"SOLARIS” ‘ (I don’t think that will
          matter though)


          Craig

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list Josh Luthman · Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:58:47 -0400 ·
Oh sorry - Gmail hit the A answer - this is what matters:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
solaris.domain.com. 259200 IN A 192.168.X.X

If you do a ping solaris.domain.com does it resolve to 192.168.x.x?  Were
changes made to this record recently?
quoted from Ryan Novosielski

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:47 PM, <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid> wrote:
 solaris.domain.com exists...it came back with NOERROR??


; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> @*solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>;
*solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>;


   ; (1 server found)
   ;; global options: printcmd
   ;; Got answer:
   ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: *NOERROR*, id: 9661


   Michael S. Fisher
   ISD | Active Directory Support
   user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid
   +X XXX XXX XXXX


[image: Inactive hide details for Josh Luthman ---09/23/2009 01:45:15
PM---Neither solaris or solaris.domain.com]Josh Luthman ---09/23/2009
01:45:15 PM---Neither solaris or solaris.domain.com


    *Josh Luthman <user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid>*

            09/23/2009 01:45 PM
quoted from Josh Luthman
             Please respond to
            user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid


To

user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
cc


Subject

Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup

Neither solaris or *solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>exist.  That's your problem.  You need to fix your DNS servers (listed in
quoted from Ryan Novosielski
/etc/resolv.conf) and add those records.

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM, <*user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid* <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid>>
wrote:

   [xymon at xymon]$ dig solaris @solaris

   ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> solaris @solaris


   ;; global options: printcmd
   ;; Got answer:
   ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: *NXDOMAIN*, id: 2107
   ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

   ;; QUESTION SECTION:
   ;solaris. IN A

   ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
   . 10800 IN SOA *A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET* <http://a.root-servers.net/>;. *
   NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM* <http://nstld.verisign-grs.com/>;. 2009092201
   1800 900 604800 86400

   ;; Query time: 39 msec

   ;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
   ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 13:36:58 2009
   ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 98

   [xymon at xymon]$ dig @*solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>; *
   solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>;

   ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> @*solaris.domain.com*<http://solaris.domain.com/>;
quoted from Ryan Novosielski
   *solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>;

   ; (1 server found)
   ;; global options: printcmd
   ;; Got answer:
   ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: *NOERROR*, id: 9661

   ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

   ;; QUESTION SECTION:
   ;*solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>;. IN A

   ;; ANSWER SECTION:
   *solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>;. 259200 IN A
   192.168.X.X

   ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:*

   **domain.com* <http://domain.com/>;. 259200 IN NS *solaris.domain.com*<http://solaris.domain.com/>;
quoted from Ryan Novosielski
   .


   ;; Query time: 1 msec
   ;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
   ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 13:37:05 2009
   ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 61


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   PM---Can you provide the output of]Josh Luthman ---09/23/2009 01:34:55
   PM---Can you provide the output of

        *Josh Luthman <**user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid*<user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid>
quoted from Ryan Novosielski
                           *>*

                           09/23/2009 01:34 PM

    Please respond to*
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     To
   • **user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid* <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid> cc
     Subject

   Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup
   Can you provide the output of

   dig solaris @solaris

   dig *solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>; @*
   solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>;

   Josh Luthman
   Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
   Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
   XXXX Wayne St
   Suite XXXX
   Troy, OH XXXXX

   "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
   improbable, must be the truth."
   --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


   On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, <*user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid* <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid>>
   wrote:
      I have chanegd the bb-hosts entry to be
         192.168.X.X *solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>; #
         dns nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps

         And i renamed through bb with the command ./bb 127.0.0.1 "rename
         solaris *solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>";

         No dice....UGH


         [image: Inactive hide details for Craig Cook ---09/23/2009
         01:13:51 PM--->##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows: >]Craig
         Cook ---09/23/2009 01:13:51 PM--->##############The bb-hosts file entry is
         as follows: >

               *Craig Cook <**user-850f03189cf7@xymon.invalid*<user-850f03189cf7@xymon.invalid>
quoted from Ryan Novosielski
                                                   *>*

                                                   09/23/2009 01:13 PM

    Please respond to*
   **user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid* <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
     To

   "*user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid* <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>" <*user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid* <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>>
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    Subject

   Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup
##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows:

page solaris Solaris
192.168.X.X solaris # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp telnet pop3
         pop3s imap imaps
         You are not using FQDN.

         Try (as the xymon user on the xymon host)

         dig @solaris solaris

         You may not be resolving correctly. Confirm /etc/resolv.conf is
         correct

         Try adding your domain to bb-hosts

         192.168.X.X *solaris.example.com* <http://solaris.example.com/>; #
         Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps

         Also try removing ‘ Name:"SOLARIS” ‘ (I don’t think that will
         matter though)


         Craig

list Josh Luthman · Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:06:44 -0400 ·
We're not talking literally domain.com but rather the domain for your
network...right?
quoted from Josh Luthman

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Ryan Novosielski <user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid>wrote:
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You sure about solaris.domain.com? I see an "ANSWER" section in that
one. I figure that's the problem.

Josh Luthman wrote:
Neither solaris or solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com>;
exist.  That's your problem.  You need to fix your DNS servers (listed
in /etc/resolv.conf) and add those records.

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM, <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid
<mailto:user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

    [xymon at xymon]$ dig solaris @solaris

    ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> solaris @solaris


    ;; global options: printcmd
    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: *NXDOMAIN*, id: 2107
    ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;solaris. IN A

    ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
    . 10800 IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET <http://A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET>;.
    NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM <http://NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM>;. 2009092201
    1800 900 604800 86400

    ;; Query time: 39 msec

    ;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
    ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 13:36:58 2009
    ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 98

    [xymon at xymon]$ dig @solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com>;
    solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com>;

    ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> @solaris.domain.com
    <http://solaris.domain.com>; solaris.domain.com
    <http://solaris.domain.com>;

    ; (1 server found)
    ;; global options: printcmd
    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: *NOERROR*, id: 9661

    ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL:
0
    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com>;. IN A

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com>;. 259200 IN A
192.168.X.X
    ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
    domain.com <http://domain.com>;. 259200 IN NS solaris.domain.com
    <http://solaris.domain.com>;.


    ;; Query time: 1 msec
    ;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
    ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 13:37:05 2009
    ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 61


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                            *Josh Luthman <user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid
                            <mailto:user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid>>*

                            09/23/2009 01:34 PM

                            Please respond to
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    To

    user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>

    cc


    Subject

    Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup


    Can you provide the output of

    dig solaris @solaris

    dig _solaris.domain.com_ <http://solaris.domain.com/>;
    @_solaris.domain.com_ <http://solaris.domain.com/>;

    Josh Luthman
    Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
    Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
    XXXX Wayne St
    Suite XXXX
    Troy, OH XXXXX

    "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains,
    however improbable, must be the truth."
    --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


    On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, <user-e33b4d014dce@xymon.invalid_
    <mailto:user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

          I have chanegd the bb-hosts entry to be
          192.168.X.X _solaris.domain.com_ <http://solaris.domain.com/>;
          # dns nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps

          And i renamed through bb with the command ./bb 127.0.0.1
          "rename solaris _solaris.domain.com_ <
http://solaris.domain.com/>";

          No dice....UGH


          Inactive hide details for Craig Cook ---09/23/2009 01:13:51
          PM--->##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows:
Craig Cook ---09/23/2009 01:13:51 PM--->##############The
          bb-hosts file entry is as follows: >

                                                    *Craig Cook
<**user-58ff9398e6ba@xymon.invalid_*
user-850f03189cf7@xymon.invalid>*>*

                                                    09/23/2009 01:13 PM


    Please respond to_
    user-978f057a4031@xymon.invalid_ <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>


    To

    "user-3f509a273d1e@xymon.invalid_ <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>" <user-3f509a273d1e@xymon.invalid_
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    Subject

    Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup

##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows:

page solaris Solaris
192.168.X.X solaris # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp telnet pop3
          pop3s imap imaps
          You are not using FQDN.

          Try (as the xymon user on the xymon host)

          dig @solaris solaris

          You may not be resolving correctly. Confirm /etc/resolv.conf
          is correct

          Try adding your domain to bb-hosts

          192.168.X.X _solaris.example.com_
          <http://solaris.example.com/>; # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp
          telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps

          Also try removing ‘ Name:"SOLARIS” ‘ (I don’t think that will
          matter though)


          Craig

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list Michael S. Fisher · Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:07:50 -0700 ·
Pinging solaris AND solaris.domain.com correctly respond with the right IP
address....DNS resolution was never really a problem on the xymon box as
most of my configs reference host name....The DNS test however has NEVER
worked and has ALWAYS outputed just the "DNS service is up (ok)" message

But im at a point now where we need to monitor dns records and this brings
me back to square 1


                                                                                        Josh Luthman                                                               <josh at imaginenetw                                                          orksllc.com>                                               To                                        user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid                                   09/23/2009 02:05                                           cc              PM                                                                                                                               Subject                                        Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record                Please respond to         Lookup                                            user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
quoted from Josh Luthman


Oh sorry - Gmail hit the A answer - this is what matters:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
solaris.domain.com. 259200 IN A 192.168.X.X

If you do a ping solaris.domain.com does it resolve to 192.168.x.x?  Were
changes made to this record recently?

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:47 PM, <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid> wrote:
  solaris.domain.com exists...it came back with NOERROR??


  ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> @solaris.domain.com solaris.domain.com

        ; (1 server found)
        ;; global options: printcmd
        ;; Got answer:
        ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9661


        Michael S. Fisher
        ISD | Active Directory Support
        user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid
        +X XXX XXX XXXX

  Inactive hide details for Josh Luthman ---09/23/2009 01:45:15
  PM---Neither solaris or solaris.domain.comJosh Luthman ---09/23/2009
  01:45:15 PM---Neither solaris or solaris.domain.com

                                                                                                    Josh Luthman <                                                             josh at imaginene                                                             tworksllc.com>                                                                                                            To                                                                                                     09/23/2009                   user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid                                01:45 PM                                                                                                                  cc                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Subject                                                                                       Please respond to                          Re: [hobbit] DNS                  user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid                           Test - No Record                                                           Lookup                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
quoted from Josh Luthman


  Neither solaris or solaris.domain.com exist.  That's your problem.  You
  need to fix your DNS servers (listed in /etc/resolv.conf) and add those
  records.

  Josh Luthman
  Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
  Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
  XXXX Wayne St
  Suite XXXX
  Troy, OH XXXXX

  "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
  improbable, must be the truth."
  --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


  On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM, <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid> wrote:
        [xymon at xymon]$ dig solaris @solaris

        ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> solaris @solaris


        ;; global options: printcmd
        ;; Got answer:
        ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 2107
        ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL:
        0

        ;; QUESTION SECTION:
        ;solaris. IN A

        ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
        . 10800 IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET. NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM.
        2009092201 1800 900 604800 86400

        ;; Query time: 39 msec

        ;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
        ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 13:36:58 2009
        ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 98

        [xymon at xymon]$ dig @solaris.domain.com solaris.domain.com

        ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> @solaris.domain.com solaris.domain.com

        ; (1 server found)
        ;; global options: printcmd
        ;; Got answer:
        ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9661

        ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1,
        ADDITIONAL: 0

        ;; QUESTION SECTION:
        ;solaris.domain.com. IN A

        ;; ANSWER SECTION:
        solaris.domain.com. 259200 IN A 192.168.X.X

        ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
        domain.com. 259200 IN NS solaris.domain.com.


        ;; Query time: 1 msec
        ;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
        ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 13:37:05 2009
        ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 61


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        PM---Can you provide the output ofJosh Luthman ---09/23/2009
        01:34:55 PM---Can you provide the output of


                                                                              Josh Luthman <user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid>                                                                                                                                                                                       09/23/2009 01:34 PM                                                  To                                                                                                                                     user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid                                                                                                                                                       cc                                                                                           Please respond to                                                            user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid                                                                                                                                                                                          Subject                                                                                                                                     Re: [hobbit] DNS                                                           Test - No Record                                                           Lookup                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
quoted from Josh Luthman


        Can you provide the output of

        dig solaris @solaris

        dig solaris.domain.com @solaris.domain.com

        Josh Luthman
        Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
        Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
        XXXX Wayne St
        Suite XXXX
        Troy, OH XXXXX

        "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains,
        however improbable, must be the truth."
        --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


        On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid> wrote:
                    I have chanegd the bb-hosts entry to be
                    192.168.X.X solaris.domain.com # dns nis ntp telnet
                    pop3 pop3s imap imaps

                    And i renamed through bb with the command ./bb
                    127.0.0.1 "rename solaris solaris.domain.com"

                    No dice....UGH


                    Inactive hide details for Craig Cook ---09/23/2009
                    01:13:51 PM--->##############The bb-hosts file entry is
                    as follows: >Craig Cook ---09/23/2009 01:13:51
                    PM--->##############The bb-hosts file entry is as
                    follows: >

                                                                                                                       Craig Cook                                                                 <                                                                          Craig.Cook                                                                 @carquest.                  To                                             com>                                                                                          "                                                                          hobbit at hswn                                             09/23/2009         .dk" <                                                  01:13 PM           hobbit at hswn                                                                .dk>                                                                                                                                                           cc                                                                                                                                                                          Please respond to                               Subject                     user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid                                                                                                        Re:                                                                        [hobbit]                                                                   DNS Test -                                                                 No Record                                                                  Lookup                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
quoted from Josh Luthman
##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows:

page solaris Solaris
192.168.X.X solaris # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp
                    telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps
                    You are not using FQDN.

                    Try (as the xymon user on the xymon host)

                    dig @solaris solaris

                    You may not be resolving correctly. Confirm
                    /etc/resolv.conf is correct

                    Try adding your domain to bb-hosts

                    192.168.X.X solaris.example.com # Name:"SOLARIS" dns
                    nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps

                    Also try removing ‘ Name:"SOLARIS” ‘ (I don’t think
                    that will matter though)


                    Craig
list Michael S. Fisher · Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:19:26 -0700 ·
:) Yes...

Our domain is NOT domain.com

Good ?. but i cant seem to find any rhyme or reason to why its not doing
it....dig is in the PATH btw


             Josh Luthman                                                  
             <josh at imaginenetw                                             
             orksllc.com>                                               To 
                                       user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid                      
             09/23/2009 02:10                                           cc 
quoted from Michael S. Fisher
             PM                                                            
                                                                   Subject 
                                       Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record   
             Please respond to         Lookup                              
              user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid                                               
                                                                           
                                                                           
We're not talking literally domain.com but rather the domain for your
network...right?

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Ryan Novosielski <user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid>
quoted from Michael S. Fisher
wrote:
  -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
  Hash: SHA1

  You sure about solaris.domain.com? I see an "ANSWER" section in that
  one. I figure that's the problem.

  Josh Luthman wrote:
Neither solaris or solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com>;
exist.  That's your problem.  You need to fix your DNS servers (listed
in /etc/resolv.conf) and add those records.

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM, <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid
<mailto:user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

    [xymon at xymon]$ dig solaris @solaris

    ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> solaris @solaris


    ;; global options: printcmd
    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: *NXDOMAIN*, id: 2107
    ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL:
  0
    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;solaris. IN A

    ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
    . 10800 IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET <http://A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET>;.
    NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM <http://NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM>;. 2009092201
    1800 900 604800 86400

    ;; Query time: 39 msec

    ;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
    ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 13:36:58 2009
    ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 98

    [xymon at xymon]$ dig @solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com>;
    solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com>;

    ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> @solaris.domain.com
    <http://solaris.domain.com>; solaris.domain.com
    <http://solaris.domain.com>;

    ; (1 server found)
    ;; global options: printcmd
    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: *NOERROR*, id: 9661

    ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1,
  ADDITIONAL: 0
    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com>;. IN A

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com>;. 259200 IN A
  192.168.X.X
    ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
    domain.com <http://domain.com>;. 259200 IN NS solaris.domain.com
    <http://solaris.domain.com>;.


    ;; Query time: 1 msec
    ;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
    ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 13:37:05 2009
    ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 61


    Inactive hide details for Josh Luthman ---09/23/2009 01:34:55
    PM---Can you provide the output ofJosh Luthman ---09/23/2009
    01:34:55 PM---Can you provide the output of

                            *Josh Luthman <user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid
                            <mailto:user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid>>*

                            09/23/2009 01:34 PM

                            Please respond to
                            user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>


    To

    user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>

    cc


    Subject

    Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup


    Can you provide the output of

    dig solaris @solaris

    dig _solaris.domain.com_ <http://solaris.domain.com/>;
    @_solaris.domain.com_ <http://solaris.domain.com/>;

    Josh Luthman
    Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
    Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
    XXXX Wayne St
    Suite XXXX
    Troy, OH XXXXX

    "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains,
    however improbable, must be the truth."
    --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


    On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, <user-e33b4d014dce@xymon.invalid_
    <mailto:user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

          I have chanegd the bb-hosts entry to be
          192.168.X.X _solaris.domain.com_ <http://solaris.domain.com/>;
          # dns nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps

          And i renamed through bb with the command ./bb 127.0.0.1
          "rename solaris _solaris.domain.com_ <
  http://solaris.domain.com/>";

          No dice....UGH


          Inactive hide details for Craig Cook ---09/23/2009 01:13:51
          PM--->##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows:
          >Craig Cook ---09/23/2009 01:13:51 PM--->##############The
          bb-hosts file entry is as follows: >


                                                    *Craig Cook
  <**user-58ff9398e6ba@xymon.invalid_*
  user-850f03189cf7@xymon.invalid>*>*

                                                    09/23/2009 01:13 PM


    Please respond to_
    user-978f057a4031@xymon.invalid_ <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>


    To

    "user-3f509a273d1e@xymon.invalid_ <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>" <user-3f509a273d1e@xymon.invalid_
    cc

    Subject

    Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup


          >##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows:
          >
          >page solaris Solaris
          >192.168.X.X solaris # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp telnet pop3
          pop3s imap imaps

          You are not using FQDN.

          Try (as the xymon user on the xymon host)

          dig @solaris solaris

          You may not be resolving correctly. Confirm /etc/resolv.conf
          is correct

          Try adding your domain to bb-hosts

          192.168.X.X _solaris.example.com_
          <http://solaris.example.com/>; # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp
          telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps

          Also try removing ‘ Name:"SOLARIS” ‘ (I don’t think that will
          matter though)


          Craig

  - --  ---- _  _ _  _ ___  _  _  _  |Y#| |  | |\/| |  \ |\ |  | |Ryan
  Novosielski - Systems Programmer II  |$&| |__| |  | |__/ | \| _| |
  user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid - 973/972.0922 (2-0922)  \__/ Univ. of Med. and
  Dent.|IST/CST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630
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list Michael S. Fisher · Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:38:52 -0700 ·
Just to confirm, my /etc/resolv.conf looks like this


# generated by NetworkManager, do not edit!
# No nameservers found; try putting DNS servers into your
# ifcfg files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts like so:
#
# DNS1=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
# DNS2=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
# SEARCH=lab.foo.com bar.foo.com

domain domain.com
nameserver 192.168.X.X
quoted from Michael S. Fisher


             Josh Luthman                                                  
             <josh at imaginenetw                                             
             orksllc.com>                                               To 
                                       user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid                      
             09/23/2009 02:10                                           cc 
             PM                                                            
                                                                   Subject 
                                       Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record   
             Please respond to         Lookup                              
              user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid                                               
                                                                           
                                                                           
We're not talking literally domain.com but rather the domain for your
network...right?

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Ryan Novosielski <user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
  -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
  Hash: SHA1

  You sure about solaris.domain.com? I see an "ANSWER" section in that
  one. I figure that's the problem.

  Josh Luthman wrote:
Neither solaris or solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com>;
exist.  That's your problem.  You need to fix your DNS servers (listed
in /etc/resolv.conf) and add those records.

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM, <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid
<mailto:user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

    [xymon at xymon]$ dig solaris @solaris

    ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> solaris @solaris


    ;; global options: printcmd
    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: *NXDOMAIN*, id: 2107
    ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL:
  0
    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;solaris. IN A

    ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
    . 10800 IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET <http://A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET>;.
    NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM <http://NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM>;. 2009092201
    1800 900 604800 86400

    ;; Query time: 39 msec

    ;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
    ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 13:36:58 2009
    ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 98

    [xymon at xymon]$ dig @solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com>;
    solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com>;

    ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> @solaris.domain.com
    <http://solaris.domain.com>; solaris.domain.com
    <http://solaris.domain.com>;

    ; (1 server found)
    ;; global options: printcmd
    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: *NOERROR*, id: 9661

    ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1,
  ADDITIONAL: 0
    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com>;. IN A

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com>;. 259200 IN A
  192.168.X.X
    ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
    domain.com <http://domain.com>;. 259200 IN NS solaris.domain.com
    <http://solaris.domain.com>;.


    ;; Query time: 1 msec
    ;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
    ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 13:37:05 2009
    ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 61


    Inactive hide details for Josh Luthman ---09/23/2009 01:34:55
    PM---Can you provide the output ofJosh Luthman ---09/23/2009
    01:34:55 PM---Can you provide the output of

                            *Josh Luthman <user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid
                            <mailto:user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid>>*

                            09/23/2009 01:34 PM

                            Please respond to
                            user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>


    To

    user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>

    cc


    Subject

    Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup


    Can you provide the output of

    dig solaris @solaris

    dig _solaris.domain.com_ <http://solaris.domain.com/>;
    @_solaris.domain.com_ <http://solaris.domain.com/>;

    Josh Luthman
    Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
    Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
    XXXX Wayne St
    Suite XXXX
    Troy, OH XXXXX

    "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains,
    however improbable, must be the truth."
    --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


    On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, <user-e33b4d014dce@xymon.invalid_
    <mailto:user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

          I have chanegd the bb-hosts entry to be
          192.168.X.X _solaris.domain.com_ <http://solaris.domain.com/>;
          # dns nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps

          And i renamed through bb with the command ./bb 127.0.0.1
          "rename solaris _solaris.domain.com_ <
  http://solaris.domain.com/>";

          No dice....UGH


          Inactive hide details for Craig Cook ---09/23/2009 01:13:51
          PM--->##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows:
          >Craig Cook ---09/23/2009 01:13:51 PM--->##############The
          bb-hosts file entry is as follows: >


                                                    *Craig Cook
  <**user-58ff9398e6ba@xymon.invalid_*
  user-850f03189cf7@xymon.invalid>*>*

                                                    09/23/2009 01:13 PM


    Please respond to_
    user-978f057a4031@xymon.invalid_ <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>


    To

    "user-3f509a273d1e@xymon.invalid_ <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>" <user-3f509a273d1e@xymon.invalid_
    cc

    Subject

    Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup


          >##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows:
          >
          >page solaris Solaris
          >192.168.X.X solaris # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp telnet pop3
          pop3s imap imaps

          You are not using FQDN.

          Try (as the xymon user on the xymon host)

          dig @solaris solaris

          You may not be resolving correctly. Confirm /etc/resolv.conf
          is correct

          Try adding your domain to bb-hosts

          192.168.X.X _solaris.example.com_
          <http://solaris.example.com/>; # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp
          telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps

          Also try removing ‘ Name:"SOLARIS” ‘ (I don’t think that will
          matter though)


          Craig

  - --  ---- _  _ _  _ ___  _  _  _  |Y#| |  | |\/| |  \ |\ |  | |Ryan
  Novosielski - Systems Programmer II  |$&| |__| |  | |__/ | \| _| |
  user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid - 973/972.0922 (2-0922)  \__/ Univ. of Med. and
  Dent.|IST/CST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630
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list Josh Luthman · Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:06:57 -0400 ·
Well I can tell you for certain that Xymon 4.2.0 with a bb-hosts of

74.218.88.168   yaright.imaginenetworksllc.com # ssh dns

Which surely asks the question dig yaright.imaginenetworksllc.com @
yaright.imaginenetworksllc.com based on the output.  From my understanding
this is your desired result, too.

Wed Sep 23 17:59:25 2009 dns ok

Service dns on yaright.imaginenetworksllc.com is OK (up)

id: 35094
flags: qr rd ra
opcode: QUERY
rcode: NOERROR
Questions:
yariht.imaginenetworksllc.com. A
Answers:
yaright.imaginenetworksllc.com. 1791 A 74.218.88.168
<snip>


That being the case I don't understand why it would simply say "OK" before.
I think this is going to help identify the issue.

Have you tried:

dns=A:google.com
quoted from Michael S. Fisher

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:38 PM, <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid> wrote:
 Just to confirm, my /etc/resolv.conf looks like this


# generated by NetworkManager, do not edit!
# No nameservers found; try putting DNS servers into your
# ifcfg files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts like so:
#
# DNS1=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
# DNS2=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
# SEARCH=lab.foo.com bar.foo.com

domain domain.com
nameserver 192.168.X.X

[image: Inactive hide details for Josh Luthman ---09/23/2009 02:10:24
PM---We're not talking literally domain.com]Josh Luthman ---09/23/2009
02:10:24 PM---We're not talking literally domain.com


    *Josh Luthman <user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid>*

            09/23/2009 02:10 PM
quoted from Josh Luthman
             Please respond to
            user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid


To

user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid

cc


Subject

Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup

We're not talking literally *domain.com* <http://domain.com/>; but rather
quoted from Michael S. Fisher
the domain for your network...right?

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Ryan Novosielski <*user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid*<user-ae4522577e16@xymon.invalid>>
wrote:

   -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
   Hash: SHA1

   You sure about *solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>? I see
quoted from Michael S. Fisher
   an "ANSWER" section in that
   one. I figure that's the problem.

   Josh Luthman wrote:
Neither solaris or *solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/><;
   *http://solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>>;
quoted from Michael S. Fisher
exist.  That's your problem.  You need to fix your DNS servers
   (listed
in /etc/resolv.conf) and add those records.

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM, <*user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid* <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid>
<mailto:*user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid* <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid>>> wrote:

    [xymon at xymon]$ dig solaris @solaris

    ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> solaris @solaris


    ;; global options: printcmd
    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: *NXDOMAIN*, id: 2107
    ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1,
   ADDITIONAL: 0
    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;solaris. IN A

    ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
    . 10800 IN SOA *A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET* <http://a.root-servers.net/><;
   *http://A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET* <http://a.root-servers.net/>>;.
    *NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM* <http://nstld.verisign-grs.com/>; <*
   http://NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM* <http://nstld.verisign-grs.com/>>;.
quoted from Michael S. Fisher
   2009092201
    1800 900 604800 86400

    ;; Query time: 39 msec

    ;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
    ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 13:36:58 2009
    ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 98

    [xymon at xymon]$ dig @*solaris.domain.com*<http://solaris.domain.com/><;
   *http://solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>>;
    *solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>; <*
   http://solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>>;

    ; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> @*solaris.domain.com*<http://solaris.domain.com/>;
    <*http://solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>>; *
   solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>;
    <*http://solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>>;
quoted from Michael S. Fisher

    ; (1 server found)
    ;; global options: printcmd
    ;; Got answer:
    ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: *NOERROR*, id: 9661

    ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1,
   ADDITIONAL: 0
    ;; QUESTION SECTION:
    ;*solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>; <*

   http://solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>>;. IN A

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    *solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>; <*
   http://solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>>;. 259200 IN A
   192.168.X.X
    ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
    *domain.com* <http://domain.com/>; <*http://domain.com*<http://domain.com/>>;.
   259200 IN NS *solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>;
    <*http://solaris.domain.com* <http://solaris.domain.com/>>;.
quoted from Michael S. Fisher


    ;; Query time: 1 msec
    ;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
    ;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 13:37:05 2009
    ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 61


    Inactive hide details for Josh Luthman ---09/23/2009 01:34:55
    PM---Can you provide the output ofJosh Luthman ---09/23/2009
    01:34:55 PM---Can you provide the output of

                            *Josh Luthman <*
   user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid* <user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid>
*
                            09/23/2009 01:34 PM

                            Please respond to

                            *user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid* <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid><mailto:
   *user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid* <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>>

    To

    *user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid* <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid> <mailto:*user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid*<user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
quoted from Michael S. Fisher


    cc


    Subject

    Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup


    Can you provide the output of

    dig solaris @solaris

    dig _solaris.domain.com_ <*http://solaris.domain.com/*<http://solaris.domain.com/>;

    @_solaris.domain.com_ <*http://solaris.domain.com/*<http://solaris.domain.com/>;
quoted from Michael S. Fisher


    Josh Luthman
    Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
    Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
    XXXX Wayne St
    Suite XXXX
    Troy, OH XXXXX

    "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains,
    however improbable, must be the truth."
    --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


    On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, <user-e33b4d014dce@xymon.invalid_
    <mailto:*user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid* <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid>>> wrote:

          I have chanegd the bb-hosts entry to be
          192.168.X.X _solaris.domain.com_ <*
   http://solaris.domain.com/* <http://solaris.domain.com/>>;
          # dns nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps

          And i renamed through bb with the command ./bb 127.0.0.1
          "rename solaris _solaris.domain.com_ <*
   http://solaris.domain.com/* <http://solaris.domain.com/>>";

          No dice....UGH


          Inactive hide details for Craig Cook ---09/23/2009 01:13:51
          PM--->##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows:
Craig Cook ---09/23/2009 01:13:51 PM--->##############The
          bb-hosts file entry is as follows: >

                                                    *Craig Cook
   <**user-58ff9398e6ba@xymon.invalid_*
   user-850f03189cf7@xymon.invalid* <user-850f03189cf7@xymon.invalid>>*>*


                                                    09/23/2009 01:13
   PM

    Please respond to_

    user-978f057a4031@xymon.invalid_ <mailto:*user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid* <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>>


    To

    "user-3f509a273d1e@xymon.invalid_ <mailto:*user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid* <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>>"
   <user-3f509a273d1e@xymon.invalid_
    <mailto:*user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid* <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>>>
quoted from Michael S. Fisher
    cc

    Subject

    Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup

##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows:

page solaris Solaris
192.168.X.X solaris # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp telnet
   pop3
          pop3s imap imaps
          You are not using FQDN.

          Try (as the xymon user on the xymon host)

          dig @solaris solaris

          You may not be resolving correctly. Confirm
   /etc/resolv.conf
          is correct

          Try adding your domain to bb-hosts

          192.168.X.X _solaris.example.com_

          <*http://solaris.example.com/*<http://solaris.example.com/>>;
quoted from Michael S. Fisher
   # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp
          telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps

          Also try removing ‘ Name:"SOLARIS” ‘ (I don’t think that
   will
          matter though)


          Craig

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   • **user-095ef1c764a2@xymon.invalid* <user-095ef1c764a2@xymon.invalid>

list Craig Cook · Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:05:36 -0400 ·
This file is wrong. You also need:

search domain.com

Your "dig @solaris solaris" command showed that you are not resolving correctly.  Dig did not return an answer.
quoted from Josh Luthman
Just to confirm, my /etc/resolv.conf looks like this


# generated by NetworkManager, do not edit!
# No nameservers found; try putting DNS servers into your
# ifcfg files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts like so:
#
# DNS1=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
# DNS2=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
# SEARCH=lab.foo.com bar.foo.com

domain domain.com
nameserver 192.168.X.X

Craig
list David Hay Currie · Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:01:33 -0400 ·
Ok, I see a lot of emails back and forth, and I think it would be good to summarize:

1.       Myself, as well as most of the people answering do not think that there is a problem with hobbit/xymon itself, but rather with it being able to query DNS

2.       From making point 1 clear, we know the test need to focus on the machine ability to resolve DNS records, and how it is set on the configuration for xymon

3.       We don’t have information about your DNS server and resolver settings. This won’t matter much except for a couple of exceptions

a.       Windows 2003 DNS will not automatically insert linux host into the DNS table, so you need to create the A records and reverse pointers manually.

b.      In windows, mainly if you have Exchange running it is recommended that you also have WINS running (to speed up hostname lookup), and so WINS is still quite common. Why am I pointing at WINS? Easily, it is used for query of hostnames, so now there is a difference into having FQDN and just hostnames in the bb-host file

4.       You can setup hosts to be monitored in the bb-host file either as a hostname, and IP or a FQDN. If possible I use the FQDN. After all, when you monitor, you want to completely monitor.

a.       From this there is something I learn from experience on my first setup. Using hostnames works with hobbit/xymon, but I did have problems with some checks not working. This was 5 years ago (My first test was BB I think actually), but I think the problem test were dns and ldap

Just to make examples easy, in my bb-host file I have

192.168.11.203  server1.leisure.com                                        # dns ldap dhcp !ftp !smtp !http://server1.leisure.com DESCR:"server:Active Directory Server and Application"

And if I run dig, I need to do

Dig server1.leisure.com

And I get the result.

The dns test itself reports

Service dns on server1.leisure.com is OK (up)

 
id: 57711

flags: qr aa rd ra 

opcode: QUERY

rcode: NOERROR

Questions:

                server1.leisure.com.                      A

Answers:

                server1.leisure.com.      900         A             192.168.11.203

NS records:

Additional records:

 
Seconds: 0.000323

 
As it can be seen it is pretty straight forward. Does your bb server have a FQDN? Is the rest of your network a FQDN network? Do you use windows server DNS and WINS, or something else?

 
David Hay Currie

IT Manager
quoted from Michael S. Fisher

 
From: user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2009 5:08 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup

 
Pinging solaris AND solaris.domain.com correctly respond with the right IP address....DNS resolution was never really a problem on the xymon box as most of my configs reference host name....The DNS test however has NEVER worked and has ALWAYS outputed just the "DNS service is up (ok)" message

But im at a point now where we need to monitor dns records and this brings me back to square 1


 Josh Luthman ---09/23/2009 02:05:34 PM---Oh sorry - Gmail hit the A answer - this is what matters:

Josh Luthman <user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid> 

09/23/2009 02:05 PM 
quoted from Josh Luthman

Please respond to
user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid

 
To

 
user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid


cc


Subject


Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup

 
Oh sorry - Gmail hit the A answer - this is what matters:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com/>; . 259200 IN A 192.168.X.X

If you do a ping solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com/>;  does it resolve to 192.168.x.x?  Were changes made to this record recently?
quoted from Josh Luthman

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:47 PM, <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid> > wrote: 

solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com/>;  exists...it came back with NOERROR?? 
quoted from Josh Luthman


; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> @solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com/>;  solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com/>;  


; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9661


Michael S. Fisher
ISD | Active Directory Support

user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid> 
+X XXX XXX XXXX


Josh Luthman ---09/23/2009 01:45:15 PM---Neither solaris or solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com/>; 

Josh Luthman <user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid> > 
quoted from Josh Luthman

09/23/2009 01:45 PM

 
Please respond to
user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid


To


user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid


cc


Subject


Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup

 
Neither solaris or solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com/>;  exist.  That's your problem.  You need to fix your DNS servers (listed in /etc/resolv.conf) and add those records.

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM, <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid> > wrote: 

[xymon at xymon]$ dig solaris @solaris

; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> solaris @solaris 


;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 2107
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;solaris. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
. 10800 IN SOA A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET <http://a.root-servers.net/>; . NSTLD.VERISIGN-GRS.COM <http://nstld.verisign-grs.com/>; . 2009092201 1800 900 604800 86400

;; Query time: 39 msec

;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 13:36:58 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 98

[xymon at xymon]$ dig @solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com/>;  solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com/>; 

; <<>> DiG 9.5.0b2 <<>> @solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com/>;  solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com/>; 

; (1 server found)
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 9661

;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com/>; . IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com/>; . 259200 IN A 192.168.X.X

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
domain.com <http://domain.com/>; . 259200 IN NS solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com/>; .


;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.X.X#53(192.168.X.X)
;; WHEN: Wed Sep 23 13:37:05 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 61


Josh Luthman ---09/23/2009 01:34:55 PM---Can you provide the output of

Josh Luthman <user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid> > 

09/23/2009 01:34 PM

 
Please respond to
user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid> 


To


user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid> 


cc


Subject


Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup

 
Can you provide the output of

dig solaris @solaris

dig solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com/>;  @solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com/>; 

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:26 PM, <user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid> > wrote: 

I have chanegd the bb-hosts entry to be
192.168.X.X solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com/>;  # dns nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps

And i renamed through bb with the command ./bb 127.0.0.1 "rename solaris solaris.domain.com <http://solaris.domain.com/>; "

No dice....UGH


Craig Cook ---09/23/2009 01:13:51 PM--->##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows: > 

Craig Cook <user-850f03189cf7@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-850f03189cf7@xymon.invalid> > 

09/23/2009 01:13 PM

 
Please respond to
user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid> 


To


"user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid> " <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid> >


cc


Subject


Re: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup

 
##############The bb-hosts file entry is as follows:

page solaris Solaris
192.168.X.X solaris # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps
You are not using FQDN.

Try (as the xymon user on the xymon host)

dig @solaris solaris

You may not be resolving correctly. Confirm /etc/resolv.conf is correct

Try adding your domain to bb-hosts 

192.168.X.X solaris.example.com <http://solaris.example.com/>;  # Name:"SOLARIS" dns nis ntp telnet pop3 pop3s imap imaps

Also try removing ‘ Name:"SOLARIS” ‘ (I don’t think that will matter though)


Craig
list Ryan Novosielski · Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:32:25 -0400 ·
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From my experience with Solaris, I believe that domain and search are
redundant if both say the same thing. I am not 100% sure on this, but I
have a suspicion. Might want to also look at /etc/nsswitch.conf.

=R
quoted from Craig Cook

Craig Cook wrote:
This file is wrong. You also need:

 
search domain.com

 
Your “dig @solaris solaris” command showed that you are not resolving
correctly.  Dig did not return an answer.

 
Just to confirm, my /etc/resolv.conf looks like this


# generated by NetworkManager, do not edit!
# No nameservers found; try putting DNS servers into your
# ifcfg files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts like so:
#
# DNS1=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
# DNS2=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
# SEARCH=lab.foo.com bar.foo.com

domain domain.com
nameserver 192.168.X.X
 
Craig
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list Alan Sparks · Thu, 24 Sep 2009 10:06:58 -0600 ·
quoted from David Hay Currie
David Hay Currie wrote:
Ok, I see a lot of emails back and forth, and I think it would be good
to summarize:

1.       Myself, as well as most of the people answering do not think
that there is a problem with hobbit/xymon itself, but rather with it
being able to query DNS

2.       From making point 1 clear, we know the test need to focus on
the machine ability to resolve DNS records, and how it is set on the
configuration for xymon

3.       We don’t have information about your DNS server and resolver
settings. This won’t matter much except for a couple of exceptions

a.       Windows 2003 DNS will not automatically insert linux host
into the DNS table, so you need to create the A records and reverse
pointers manually.

b.      In windows, mainly if you have Exchange running it is
recommended that you also have WINS running (to speed up hostname
lookup), and so WINS is still quite common. Why am I pointing at WINS?
Easily, it is used for query of hostnames, so now there is a
difference into having FQDN and just hostnames in the bb-host file

4.       You can setup hosts to be monitored in the bb-host file
either as a hostname, and IP or a FQDN. If possible I use the FQDN.
After all, when you monitor, you want to completely monitor.

a.       From this there is something I learn from experience on my
first setup. Using hostnames works with hobbit/xymon, but I did have
problems with some checks not working. This was 5 years ago (My first
test was BB I think actually), but I think the problem test were dns
and ldap

Just to make examples easy, in my bb-host file I have

192.168.11.203 
server1.leisure.com                                        # dns ldap
dhcp !ftp !smtp !http://server1.leisure.com DESCR:"server:Active
Directory Server and Application"

And if I run dig, I need to do

Dig server1.leisure.com

And I get the result.

The dns test itself reports

Service dns on server1.leisure.com is OK (up)

 
Since the test is built into bbtest-net, and we can't duplicate the
problem, and if the person with the issue is sure that a dig on the
server name does work, maybe it's an issue with either the build of
bbtest-net, or with your bb-services file.

Is there any chance you have added a section [dns] to your
etc/bb-services file?  I can simulate your problem by adding one (OK,
but no DNS lookup output).  If so, please remove it.
-Alan
list Michael S. Fisher · Fri, 25 Sep 2009 08:42:57 -0700 ·
Thank you all for your input. Our DNS environment  consists of both Windows
Server 2003 DNS as well as BIND. Both dns tests give the same result. DNS
OK but no query below.

I will have to experiment with a different build of xymon because i have a
suspision that there is something wrong with the bbtest-net.

I will post results shortly.
list Ryan Novosielski · Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:47:14 -0400 ·
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Just did an install of Solaris 9 yesterday (which is AWFUL, BTW -- I
think I'd forgotten!). The installation process informed me that if you
have no search lines, it will just use the domain line to search (which
is what I thought).
quoted from Ryan Novosielski

Ryan Novosielski wrote:
From my experience with Solaris, I believe that domain and search are
redundant if both say the same thing. I am not 100% sure on this, but I
have a suspicion. Might want to also look at /etc/nsswitch.conf.

=R

Craig Cook wrote:
This file is wrong. You also need:
search domain.com
Your  dig @solaris solaris  command showed that you are not resolving
correctly.  Dig did not return an answer.
Just to confirm, my /etc/resolv.conf looks like this


# generated by NetworkManager, do not edit!
# No nameservers found; try putting DNS servers into your
# ifcfg files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts like so:
#
# DNS1=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
# DNS2=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
# SEARCH=lab.foo.com bar.foo.com

domain domain.com
nameserver 192.168.X.X
Craig
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list Vernon Everett · Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:58:02 +0800 ·
Hi all

Was catching up on my list, and saw this.
For what it's worth, we were having serious DNS issues in a mixed Unix/Windoze environment.
Amongst other things, we were getting DNS lookup failures, and bbtest-net was coring.
With some assistance from Henrik, we deduced it was a bug in the c-ares library - the details of which completely escapes me.
(I don't even remember what the c-ares library does)
To work around the issue, we added --no-ares to the [bbnet] CMD line in hobbitlaunch.cfg on the server.
Our entry now reads
     CMD bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse --no-ares

It might not work, it might be a red herring, but it might just resolve the issue, and considering the effort it will cost to implement, there might be no harm in trying.
Good luck.

Cheers
      V
quoted from Michael S. Fisher

From: user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-ab09d151b26b@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, 25 September 2009 11:43 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] DNS Test - No Record Lookup


Thank you all for your input. Our DNS environment consists of both Windows Server 2003 DNS as well as BIND. Both dns tests give the same result. DNS OK but no query below.

I will have to experiment with a different build of xymon because i have a suspision that there is something wrong with the bbtest-net.

I will post results shortly.

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