With DNS, you generally only test one of the several IP address - EITHER IPv4 OR IPv6. Worse, if you have multiple IPv4 or multiple IPv6 addresses in a round-robin, then you may not even have control over *which* IP you use; it depends on which one the DNS server happens to hand you.
Somebody who cares about every single IP address generally is monitoring at a very low level where DNS gets in the way instead of being helpful. Kevin Keane The NetTech http://www.4nettech.com -----Original Message----- From: Patrik Båt [mailto:p...@osix.eu] Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 12:19 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support Or why not use DNS. or /etc/hosts Then its up 2 the plugin setup i guess. On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 15:03 +0200, Patrik Båt wrote: > Why not just have a /usr/local/nagios/etc/ipv6.txt > > and a ping.sh that look in this file for the ipv4 address and get a > ipv6 andress and ping6 that address? > > > On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:05 +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > > On 06/09/2011 08:07 PM, Michael Friedrich wrote: > > > -------- Original Message -------- > > > > > >> If this patch had been accompanied by something to make > > >> conditional macros and command_line arguments work, I'd have > > >> cheered all the way though. > > > > > > I don't really get it what you mean - can you explain that a bit more? > > > > > > > Sure. If there was some way to configure Nagios so that certain > > command arguments were only expanded if the number of arguments to > > the check matches a certain criteria, one could write checks that > > don't pass half baked argument strings to the plugins, and the > > complexity would be handled in one place. That would actually gain > > something, rather than making "address6" an official variable, which > > gains nothing compared to using a custom variable, but breaks the abi even > > so. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -------- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced > content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline > Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility > Checking. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing > list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please > include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any > issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to > /dev/null ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
