SURVIVOR: namedSerial Check Module
About namedSerial
basics
Module Type Scheduler Remote
check Yes No
syntax 
     module namedSerial {
       zone <string>
       reference <string>
     }

Dependencies

Arguments

Name Type Value
zone string Zone name to use in query.
reference string Reference DNS server to check replies against.

Description

The namedSerial module uses the Net::DNS Perl module to get the SOA record (which contains the serial) for the given zone. It compares the serial found on the reference name server to all the other name servers, and reports problems on hosts that do not have the latest serial. The module does not perform recursive lookups, so it should only be used to check DNS servers that are authoritative for the zone.

Examples

  1. To test the serial for nameservers for site.org against the reference server ns1.site.org: 
         module namedSerial {
       zone site.org
       reference ns1.site.org
     }
$Date: 2006/11/19 20:57:57 $
$Revision: 0.7 $
 keywords
reference
zone