[151908] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Distributed DNS/etc checking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Wright)
Wed Apr 4 05:17:15 2012
From: Matthew Wright <Matthew.Wright@pearson-harper.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 09:16:23 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20120404041248.GH25710@clanspum.net>
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Todd Snyder(todd@borked.ca)@Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:08:06PM -0400:
> Good day all,
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> There have been a few instances where we've wanted to check our=20
> external DNS servers from various external networks, so we've utilized=20
> the existing looking glass tools provided by many of you. However,=20
> it's a very manual process, given that all LG's I've found say no=20
> automating/scripting. If we want to check from a couple dozen sites=20
> around the world, it's a lot of clicking and typing and collecting. =20
> If we wanted to create an tool that our NOC could use to verify our=20
> services, we would need something we could script. Ideally, we'd be=20
> able to run this constantly to do health checks on our services, but one =
step at a time.
A happy customer report for http://www.whatsmydns.net/ not scriptable as su=
ch, but very useful, and free into the bargain.
I use it to check our GeoIP DNS is responding as expected.=20
Matthew
