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From: lance@motcsd.csd.mot.com (lance.norskog)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Is the DNS "working"?
Message-ID: <3805@motcsd.csd.mot.com>
Date: 29 Apr 91 22:35:47 GMT
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Organization: Motorola CSD, Cupertino CA
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This thread reminds me of an idea I head awhile back: a DNS MIB.
You ask a particular host, "make this DNS request via your normal method,
and send me back the results".  The point being, that every morning at
3AM you can do a spot check on all your hosts and make sure that they
can see their local servers, their main servers, and can get out on
the internet.  SNMP is the natural avenue for doing this check.

Lance Norskog

Ever notice that UDP is only used on the Internet for infrastructure?
Except for NFS, which should use TCP anyway?