Nathan, Not all TLD name servers have an IPv4 address, so running this monitor on an IPv4 only host, may give you some false negatives.
--Augie On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Nathan Gibbs <nat...@cmpublishers.com> wrote: > Just posted a dns-gtld monitor. > > http://www.cmpublishers.com/oss/ > > What this does. > 1. Looks up the NS's for a domain. > 2. Looks up the NS's for the gtld involved. > 3. Queries the NS's obtained in 2 and compares the results with the results > obtained in 1. > > If ( they match ) { > OK > }else{ > Error > } > > The inspiration. > In Feb our ISP renumbered some of its nets. Our IP address was changed. Our > registrar took WAY to long to get its Act together, change, and propagate new > glue records. We spent WAY too much time practicing dig-fu, telling our > registrar what the ( their ) problems were, and pulling our hair out. > Somewhere in that chaos ( between premature baldness & a nice padded cell ), > the thought occurred that their wasn't a monitor for this. Now there is. > :-) > > Enjoy. > > -- > Sincerely, > > Nathan Gibbs > > Systems Administrator > Christ Media > http://www.cmpublishers.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > mon mailing list > mon@linux.kernel.org > http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon > > -- Augie Schwer - au...@schwer.us - http://schwer.us Key fingerprint = 9815 AE19 AFD1 1FE7 5DEE 2AC3 CB99 2784 27B0 C072 _______________________________________________ mon mailing list mon@linux.kernel.org http://linux.kernel.org/mailman/listinfo/mon