Need a DNS monitor, preferably Windows-based

Jim Herrick jim at herrick.net
Sat Sep 8 03:23:40 UTC 2001


Webmin ( http://webmin.com/webmin/ ) does a great job of this sort of
monitoring AND has a module for NetSaint!

Jim

> At 09:47 PM 9/6/01, Ray Bush wrote:
>
> >We use netsaint for this and many other things that need monitored.
> >
> >http://www.netsaint.org/
> >
> >Ray wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Is anyone aware of a program that will periodically automatically
query a
> > > DNS server (BIND, in this case) and set off some kind of alert (email,
> > > pager) if a valid response is not returned?
> > >
> > > I'm not talking about a pinger; rather something that will actually
perform
> > > a lookup and then complain if the server does not respond. We've got
several
> > > Linux BIND servers scattered around and need a better way of noticing
> > > outages than having users call our Help Desk.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Ray
>
>
>



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