On Mon 02 Nov 2009 at 10:26:56 PM -0800, Mike wrote: > So I was wondering - what do people use to check their recursive >resolvers and make sure they're giving out answers? I use dns.monitor >on my primary servers to check that Im handing out data, but I also >want to be checking my recursive resolvers to make sure they are >handing out answers as well and I don't see a good way to do that? I >am switching to powerdns and could do some things here like make sure >it hands out a crafted record in response to a TXT query for example, >just to 'prove' it's running, but I don't know what tool I'd use to >do that. Any ideas?
You could make a bogus host name with a low ttl as a child ns running as a non production daemon. Use an A record that reflects the time of day, script updates and monitor that the recursive daemon, gets a reasonable answer. _______________________________________________ mon mailing list mon@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon
