Matthew Pounsett schrieb:
> On 2011/07/18, at 11:37, James Pratt wrote:
>
>> This plugin uses the nslookup program to obtain the IP address for the given 
>> host/domain query.
>> An optional DNS server to use may be specified.
>> If no DNS server is specified, the default server(s) specified in 
>> /etc/resolv.conf will be used.
>
> The behaviour of nslookup is pretty terrible... it's not really advisable to 
> use it for any DNS diagnostics.  I'm working on a replacement for check_dns 
> which does its own DNS work rather than relying on shelling out to something 
> else... unfortunately, I'm not much of a C coder, so it's in Perl.  If I can 
> get permission from my boss I'll share it back to the community as a 
> replacement for what's there now.

i use check_dig for years now.

Joerg

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