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fran1942

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#154875 11-Nov-2014 12:13

Hello, I have a suspected failure of DNS resolution i.e .suspect server.
Can anyone suggest a tool that can perform lookups continuously to the server (just like continuous nslookups) that I can monitor over time to see if and when failures are occurring ?

thanks for any advice.

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#1172767 11-Nov-2014 12:14

internal or external testing?

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#1172773 11-Nov-2014 12:23

Smokeping, if you've got a Raspberry Pi sitting around you can get it running on that.

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fran1942

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#1172774 11-Nov-2014 12:27

for testing an external dns server.

An suggestions for something to run on a Windows platform ?

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#1172777 11-Nov-2014 12:35

Google ippatrol

Cheap enough for hourly testing that IMHO you'd have rocks in your head to roll your own.

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#1173564 12-Nov-2014 13:33

fran1942: for testing an external dns server.

An suggestions for something to run on a Windows platform ?

Pingdom can test/check dns on a schedule (and much more)
https://www.pingdom.com/

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