Sorry, I "uppercased" the "a" in the e-mail, but it's actually not uppercase in bb-hosts.

I guess I don't understand the test. I was hoping that for any host, I could perform a lookup of its own A record on the dns servers of my choosing (or at least use the dns servers from resolv.conf). The host where I've placed the DNS test is not a DNS server, but I would like to verify that it's "A" record does exist.

The reason I want this is that we have some customers that from time-to-time will fail to renew their domain-name, or make a DNS change and either change the IP address for a host or drop the hostname all together.

I would like to use this test, or another, to gather the DNS information for the A record of a particular host so that I can verify or deny that this is a problem.

Any suggestions?

Currently I'm attempting to do it this way, but it doesn't do what I'm expecting:

Snip from bb-hosts:

1.2.3.4 Host1.domain.com # dns=a:host1.domain.com

I would expect this to lookup the "A" record for the host, host1.domain.com, from the DNS server in resolv.conf, but it seems to instead try to lookup the record from host1.domain.com, which is not a DNS server.

Thanks! Michael

-----Original Message----- From: Terry Barnes [mailto:tbarnes1 at hfhs.org] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 7:08 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Question about dns test

I have this setup and it works for me - not using an a record lookup though - maybe it doesn't like the uppercase "A".

1.2.3.4 my.domain.com # dns=ns:domain.com,ns:domain.org,mx:domain.org

I get the nameservers for both the domain.com and domain.org and the mx record for domain.org returned.

Hope this helps.

Terry Barnes Siemens Com @ HFHS 248-853-4968 (Office) 586-405-8382 (Cellular) 248-844-3030 (Fax) 5864058382 at messaging.nextel.com (Text Pager) tbarnes1 at hfhs.org

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