If you do CTRL-P from within the mainscreen you will get the protocol builder. This allows you to create new TCP/UDP/DNS/RADIUS checktype and/or to edit the existing ones. SO you can reconfigure the default DNS check in such way that it queries for www.somethingelse.com instead of www.woodstone.nu
dirk -----Original Message----- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:sal...@woodstone.nu] On Behalf Of Lisa Baas Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 12:01 AM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: Re: [SA-list] DNS test in Servers Alive Dirk Bulinckx wrote on 07/18/2010 05:30:31 AM: > The default DNS check in Servers Alive does a query for the www.woodstone.nu record. Yesterday > (July 17th) our DNS provider was victim of a DDOS attack. As result it was not possible > to retrieve the www.woodstone.nu record. This caused DOWNS within Servers Alive. We're > currently re-looking at our DNS setup and will take action so that we won't be affected this anymore. I've actually noticed this happening a lot recently and it took me a while to figure out what was going on. After several middle-of-the-night alerts that my dns was down I discovered that while it couldn't resolve www.woodstone.nu it would quite happily resolve everything else I tried. So I decided to change my dns check entries to simple port connection tests and get some sleep. Is it possible to change the dns test to allow for a user specified query? thanks lisa To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line to salive@woodstone.nu If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), make sure that they are not sent to the list nor to individual members. Doing so will cause you to be automatically removed from the list. To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line to salive@woodstone.nu If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), make sure that they are not sent to the list nor to individual members. Doing so will cause you to be automatically removed from the list.
