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Yes I have made the provisioning server the primary server in resolv.conf but ever since I did that occasionally the provisioning server dns service is restarting automatically about twice a day, thats why I am trying to look for a workaround.

Sorry I am not very familiar with the nagios application, the person who origiannly set it up is no longer with us so I just recently started getting my head in it. When I put the provisioning server in as the secondary it still fails the check. the cm-xxx address is not exaclty internal only- it re...

Currently I am using our modem provisioning server as the DNS server for Nagios and everything is working correctly. The provisioning server is the only one that is able to ping cm-0003080B4005.pkb.cascable.net. I was tried using multiple DNS servers but the check_ping constantly flaps.

Am I able to specify certain commands to use a specific DNS Server? Here is an example object: define host{ use generic-ps-tp ; Inherit default values from a template host_name Vienna PS - 1 ; The name we're giving to this switch alias Vienna PS - 1 ; A longer name associated with the switch address...

The issue has been resolved, not sure why but I uploaded a new resolv.conf witht he same settings and it works great now.

Thanks

Yes, I get the same message and also tried a nslookup and get this results:

nslookup: parse of /etc/resolv.conf failed

my resolv.conf is:
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
nameserver xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

I changed our DNS server for Nagios this morning. Ever since I am gettign this error with our DNS servers "DNS CRITICAL - '/usr/bin/nslookup -sil' msg parsing exited with no address." I changed the DNS serevr back on Nagios to the original one but the error is still there, I have restarted...