Nagios is a very move tool for synthetic transaction monitoring. You put in whatever hosts and host names to resolve and it does it.
-Ben Croswell On Jul 13, 2011 11:01 AM, "Karl Auer" <ka...@biplane.com.au> wrote: > We have some nameservers :-) that are used by quite a few thousands of > people. Every now and then someone comes to us and complains that the > DNS is responding slowly. Sometimes they are right, and we find the > problem and fix it. But most of the time everything runs fine, and the > DNS is not, in fact, responding slowly when that someone comes to > complain. It turns out to be their PC, or a local network issue, or > whatever. > > So we have a homegrown system in place that watches the traffic to and > from the nameservers, matches queries to answers, ignores everything > else, and notes how long it was between the question going past and the > answer going past in the opposite direction. It writes summarised > information second by second into a database so we can see exactly when > problems with response times happen, how long they happen for, and how > bad they are when they happen. > > Our system has two faults (well, two that we are actually concerned > about): It only watches UDP, and it can't deal with fragmented packets. > > So I was wondering if there is a better solution out there? > > Regards, K. > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) +61-2-64957160 (h) > http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer/ +61-428-957160 (mob) > > GPG fingerprint: DA41 51B1 1481 16E1 F7E2 B2E9 3007 14ED 5736 F687 > Old fingerprint: B386 7819 B227 2961 8301 C5A9 2EBC 754B CD97 0156
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