Den 24-01-2014 22:17, Roger skrev:
On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 5:32 AM, <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
So you can choose: a) Run xymonnet with --no-ares and live with the fact that xymonnet may take a very long time to run, resulting in purple tests and status messages not being up-to-date; or b) install a local caching BIND server where you put the normal DNS servers in the "forwarders" section.
wouldn't you have to do 'a' *and* 'b'?
you could, but if you have a local caching server then it can easily keep up with all of the Xymon requests. At least that is my experience.
Just running a caching name server won't force xymonnet to use the local cache, right?
okay - no, you have to setup /etc/resolv.conf so it points to the local cache.
(Actually, Xymon could use a caching server without having to tweak resolv.conf, but you cannot tell it what DNS server to use right now).
Regards, Henrik