Lame server checking

[Barry Margolin]

In article <4.1.20000417093758.00b8c1f0 at 206.190.136.131>,
Ed Sawicki  <ed at alcpress.com> wrote:
>At 14:32 4/17/00 +0000, Barry Margolin wrote:
>>In article <4.1.20000417091802.00b64e70 at 206.190.136.131>,
>>Ed Sawicki  <ed at alcpress.com> wrote:
>>>Does a program exist that will automatically check
>>>to see if any name servers that are authoritative for
>>>a domain are lame?
>>
>>Isn't this one of the things that dnswalk checks?  If not, the check_soa
>>script in Chapter 14 of the DNS & BIND book does this.
>
>check_soa is a script?
>I thought it was supplied as C source and I needed to have
>BIND source to compile it. If it's a script, where can I
>get it. If it's not, where can I get a binary for Linux?

It's in Bourne shell on p.342, C on p357, and Perl on p.370.

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