dns Health Checkups

[Thor Kottelin]

BIND Users Mailing List wrote:

> From: Martin McCormick <martin at dc.cis.okstate.edu>

>         I usually run a shell script that pings all the root name
> servers plus a list of sites in far-flung places as well as a few in
> other towns that are on our ISP and see how many answers come back.

>         Are there better ways to get this kind of information?  I am
> not locked in on anything yet, just trying to stay ahead of the game
> so I can give a quick honest answer when the phone rings.

I like to use SiteScope for this kind of monitoring. Check out
<http://www.freshtech.com/>.

Thor

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