[dns-operations] Monitoring DNS Servers

[david klein]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis at neustar.biz> wrote:
> At 8:31 -0700 6/7/11, Wes Hardaker wrote:
>
>> Unless the service is instrumented with SNMP, which many services are.
>> DNS, however, is not generally one of them.  Though I thought there was
>> a DNS vendor that did provide a private set of their data and made it
>> available over SNMP.  But I don't remember who.
>
> FWIW, the IETF obsoleted the DNS MiBs years ago.
>
> Not commenting on whether SNMP monitoring of DNS was a good idea or not,
> just that the "document action" happened.  RFC 1611, 1612, and 3197.  First
> two in 1994, latter was published in 2001.
>

Thank you, this is good to know. Are there better recommendations for
monitoring the health of the DNS service, and its underlying
infrastructure?






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