Re: Further logs from WhatsUp-Gold

[hardie@equinix.com]

I've configured our tests to ask for the A record of 
aroot.psg.com; does your server report that authoritatively?
			regards,
				Ted Hardie



> 
> >>>>> "sg" == Steve Glines <sglines@is-cs.com> writes:
> > Here is a log from our whatsup net checker. This one pings every 10
> > seconds with a 10 second timeout. SVCUP means that the ping was a sucess
> > but DNS timed out.  The Log only records results every minute. 
> 
> I don't know... according to the request logs on our aroot.psg.com
> (alias mbone-cern.switch.ch), WhatsUp-Gold asks for the PTR record of
> 1.0.0.127.in-addr.arpa.  Because the name server isn't configured as
> authoritative any zone including that name, it will return an empty
> answer.  Maybe this makes WhatsUp-Gold think the server doesn't work.
> 
> Obviously these things are not entirely straightforward to monitor
> (but what is?).
> 
> > 20000929 0835 SVCUP Aroot 192.83.230.1 DNS missed 1
> > 20000929 0835 DOWN Aroot 192.83.230.1 1
> > 20000929 0835 SVCDOWN Aroot 192.83.230.1 DNS 
> > 20000929 0835 SVCUP Aroot 192.83.230.1 DNS missed 2
> > 20000929 0834 DOWN Aroot 192.83.230.1 1
> > 20000929 0834 SVCDOWN Aroot 192.83.230.1 DNS 
> > 20000929 0830 SVCUP Aroot 192.83.230.1 DNS missed 1
> > 20000929 0830 DOWN Aroot 192.83.230.1 1
> [...]
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