Hi Mike
As Richard suggests, I suspect the config you proposed is going to cause Xymon, and yourself a world of hurt. Remember, Xymon uses the hostname as the index (for lack of a better word) Now you have the same host with 2 IP addresses. Xymon will perform 2 pings, using lookup to resolve IP. bbtest-net is going to bleat. I suspect, the IP address from the lookup is the one that will be used as the DNS server IP. So both DNS lookups will be to the same IP address.
I would suggest a simple script to do what you need.
Regards Vernon
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Mike Cavanagh <mike at terrapintesting.com>wrote:
An entry in the bb-host file like:
192.168.10.10 bambam # dns=fred
will perform a DNS query against the server bambam for the hostname: fred. The way I understand it is if a response is received, the DNS is considered good.
I would like to know if here are any options to verify the result. In my particular case, we want to query against a “Split DNS” server and confirm the correct IP is being returned in the A record. So,
192.168.10.10 bambam.dom.com # dns= fred.dom.com
71.137.200.10 bambam.dom.com # dns= fred.dom.com
The first entry should return: 192.168.10.15
The second entry should return: 71.137.200.15
If DNS views are broken, the 2nd entry may return: 192.168.10.15 If so, I want to get a page so DNS can be fixed.
Thanks,
Mike