Re: set up monin and mydns dns-server

[Samuel Vogel]

I would be very pleased if somebody would take over this task :)

Regards,
Samy

monit user schrieb:
> Many (most?) non-bind DNS server software will fail the dns protocol 
> test in monit as it is written (dbjdns, mydns and a couple others that 
> I tested so far), AFAIK because bind includes a "default" referral 
> response to a query about the root servers. Even the great and 
> powerful Paul Vixie admitted that this is something that most servers 
> shouldn't be doing and others pointed out non-broken client resolver 
> libraries will reject/throw out such a response.
>
> The relationship between BIND and some of the DNS RFCs act a good 
> example of why it sucks to take a certain application's behavior and 
> codify it as a set of standards, as we are currently experiencing with 
> OOXML.
>
> To work across all DNS servers, the test should have the following 
> options:
>
> Protocol: UDP or TCP
> Query Type: A, NS, etc
> and if you care about the exact value of the response rather than the 
> fact that there was or was not a response from the server an "expect" 
> or "checksum" section for checking the response.
>
> Can this go on the list? http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/doc/next.php
> or how do things get on the list?
>
> How many hours do you think it would take to add a parameterized dns 
> test?