stopped using Net::DNS moduel and started using dig/nslookup for checking.

diff --git a/src/lib/Spong/Network/plugins/check_dns b/src/lib/Spong/Network/plugins/check_dns
index de855542bae1cbe582f95bd229d55cbde08c83ff..0522de7ad89c058faea7e74acae2fb851c316e08 100755 (executable)
--- a/src/lib/Spong/Network/plugins/check_dns
+++ b/src/lib/Spong/Network/plugins/check_dns
@@ -1,37 +1,30 @@
 # Register the routine with the plugin registry
 $PLUGINS{'dns'} = \&check_dns;
 
-# Check to see if they have the Net::DNS module installed, and if they do we
-# can then do DNS queries, and see if DNS servers are alive.
-
-eval "require Net::DNS;";
-if( ! $@ ) { $dns = 1; } else { $dns = 0; }
-
-# This check will (if the Net::DNS module is available) connect to a DNS server
+# This check will connect to a DNS server
 # and ask that server to resolve it's own name.  If it can do that, then we
 # assume it is ok - If it can't then something is wrong.
 
+# $Id: check_dns,v 1.2 2000/09/13 18:20:36 sljohnson Exp $
+
 sub check_dns {
    my( $host ) = @_;
    my( $color, $summary, $message ) = ( "green", "", "" );
-   
-   if( ! $dns ) {
-      $summary = "can't do DNS lookups, Net::DNS not installed";
-      &debug( "dns - $host - $color, $summary" );
-      return ( "yellow", $summary,
-              "In order to do DNS queries you must install the Net::DNS " .
-              "Perl module.\nYou can find the module at your nearest CPAN " .
-              "archive or http://www.perl.com/CPAN/\n" );
-   }
-   
-   my $resolver = new Net::DNS::Resolver;
-   $resolver->nameservers( $host );
-   $resolver->retrans(2);
-   $resolver->retry(1);
-   $resolver->recurse(0);
-   my $q = $resolver->search( $host, "A" );
-   
-   if( defined $q && defined $q->answer && defined (($q->answer)[0]) ) {
+
+   my $cmd;
+   if ( $DNSCMD =~ /nslookup/ ) { $cmd = "$DNSCMD -type=A $host $host >/dev/null 2>&1" }
+   elsif ( $DNSCMD =~ /dig/ ) { $cmd = "$DNSCMD \@$host $host a >/dev/null 2>&1"; } 
+   else { return ( "yellow", "\$DNSCMD variable is not set to a proper value",
+                   "Valid values for the \$DNSCMD variable are 'nslookup'" .
+                   " or 'dig', with the full path name to the command. This" .
+                   " variable must be set properly in order to do DNS " . 
+                   "queries.\n" );
+        }
+
+
+   system($cmd);
+
+   if ( ($? >> 8) == 0 ) {
       $color = "green";
       $summary = "dns ok";
    } else {
@@ -44,7 +37,5 @@ sub check_dns {
    return( $color, $summary, $message );
 }
 
-
-
 1;