Just to update the list on this issue too
In the latest beta build of Servers Alive (beta.woodstone.nu) we fixed this
issue.
A little tech background:
normaly if do an MX query towards a DNS server you get back the MX
records.
some servers send other info too (like the NS
Running Salive 4.1.1609 on W2k Pro SP4.
I've got a check setup to ping one of our servers and it routinely fails
even though a command-line ping to the same server is successful.
The check is setup to do 4 pings with a timeout of 4 seconds.
The Salive log shows,
3/11/2004 1:12:52 PM
I've got salive to check to see if Kiwi's syslog is running. I'm using the
default port of 1468, this is working well. I have also added salive to
load syslog if the port check fails. This also is working well..
Thanks to all for the information...
Regards,
Gene
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