Todd Snyder(t...@borked.ca)@Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:08:06PM -0400:
> Good day all,
>
> There have been a few instances where we've wanted to check our
> external DNS servers from various external networks, so we've utilized
> the existing looking glass tools provided by many of you. However,
> it's a very manual process, given that all LG's I've found say no
> automating/scripting. If we want to check from a couple dozen sites
> around the world, it's a lot of clicking and typing and collecting.
> If we wanted to create an tool that our NOC could use to verify our
> services, we would need something we could script. Ideally, we'd be
> able to run this constantly to do health checks on our services, but one step
> at a time.
A happy customer report for http://www.whatsmydns.net/ not scriptable as such,
but very useful, and free into the bargain.
I use it to check our GeoIP DNS is responding as expected.
Matthew