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     Re: nsmon question

I had problems with the new 'AUTH' statements; even when my servers were 
authoritative they would come up.  I removed the AUTH statement and it
works OK (of course you lose the functionality that the AUTH statement
gives you)

On Thu, 27 Aug 1998 jhenders@bogon.com
wrote:

> 
> I noticed a couple of problems with nsmon today when routing to one of
> our nameservers went down. I have a config file that looks like this.
> 
> DOMAINNAME      istar.ca
> #
> mail            154.11.136.66   AUTH
> news            154.11.136.66   AUTH
> home            154.11.136.66   AUTH
> auth            154.11.136.66   AUTH
> 
> and the netconsole and log output ends up looking like this.
> 
>           Site      Address      Time   +-Variable-+ +-Value-+  Condition        
>   
>       istar.ca  154.11.136.66   15:40  named-status        0    Warning
>       istar.ca  154.11.136.66   15:40  named-status        0    Warning
>       istar.ca  154.11.136.66   15:40  named-status        0    Warning
>       istar.ca  154.11.136.66   15:40  named-status        0    Warning
>       istar.ca  154.11.136.66   15:40  named-status        0    Warning
> 
> Thu Aug 27 13:23:00 1998 [nsmon]: SITE istar.ca 154.11.136.66 VAR named-status 0 0 SOA LEVEL Critical LOGLEVEL Critical NOCOP down
> Thu Aug 27 13:23:00 1998 [nsmon]: SITE istar.ca 154.11.136.66 VAR named-status 0 0 SOA LEVEL Critical LOGLEVEL Critical NOCOP down
> Thu Aug 27 13:23:00 1998 [nsmon]: SITE istar.ca 154.11.136.66 VAR named-status 0 0 SOA LEVEL Critical LOGLEVEL Critical NOCOP down
> Thu Aug 27 13:23:00 1998 [nsmon]: SITE istar.ca 154.11.136.66 VAR named-status 0 0 SOA LEVEL Critical LOGLEVEL Critical NOCOP down
> 
> Wouldn't it be more useful if the site was listed as mail.istar.ca,
> news.istar.ca, etc? 
> 
> Also when the site was reachable I don't seem to have got up messages in
> the data or log files so the sites stayed flagged in netconsole until I
> restarted nsmon.
> 
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> 

Thank you,

Jonathan A. Zdziarski
Senior Systems Administrator
Netrail, Inc.
888.NET.RAIL x242