[smokeping-users] Re: DNS Probes keep timing out

[Niko Tyni]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 10:32:53AM -0500, Kamran Siddiqui/NYLIC wrote:
 
> I am trying to get DNS probes to work. I installed bind 9.3.0 on my solaris
> box. When I run smokeping I keep getting
> 
> DNS: www.cnn.com: timeout (100 s) reached, killing the probe.
> DNS: www.mozilla.org: timeout (100 s) reached, killing the probe.
> 
> I can do a dig www.cnn.com and get results fine. I did a snoop and can see
> the traffic go back and forth and the result coming back from the dns
> server with an IP for www.cnn.com.
> What am I doing wrong?

> +++ cnn
> menu = www.cnn.com
> title = www.cnn.com DNS Lookup
> host = www.cnn.com
> ++++ PROBE_CONF
> lookup=www.cnn.com

You're using www.cnn.com both as the name server (the "host" line)
and as the name to resolve (the "lookup" line). Replace
the "host" with the name server you want to measure.

HTH,
-- 
niko

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