Jan-Piet Mens

I think I speak on behalf of Volker and Stefan, when I say that we have little hope that IBM/Lotus will ever fix what they buggered up. I for one, don't want to keep checking.

While waiting for a phone call, I whipped up a little Nagios / Icinga plugin to monitor the "progress" of the guys at the other end of the world.

Here you are:

#!/bin/sh
# check_borked_ibm_lotus_dns_developer_lotus_com.sh
# (C) 2009 Jan-Piet Mens
# Nagios Plugin to wait for ever.

WARNING=1
CRIT=2

NS="`dig +short lotus.com ns`"  # Find name servers
WHASSA=developer.lotus.com      # whattalookup?

for ns in ${NS}; do
   a=`dig +short @${ns} ${WHASSA}`  # Find A RR. Futile.

   # Next line can also be written as `[ true ]'
   [ "$a" != "192.147.107.27" ] && {
        echo -n "Holy cow, Joe! They fixed their friggin' DNS! Call Ed. "
        echo "Relax hon, they probably didn't fix, just changed sumpin'"
        exit ${WARNING};
        }
done
echo "Still borked. Waiting for SPR."
exit ${CRIT}

I do want to point out that above script contains loads of unnecessary ballast, and you can throw most of it out, leaving it like this:

#!/bin/sh

CRIT=2

echo "Still borked. Waiting for SPR."
exit ${CRIT}

Choose whichever version suits your environment best.

Astute readers will notice I didn't code an OK state; I don't think it'll be required any time soon…