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From: "Matthew Palmer" <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
I religiously use http://squish.net/dnscheck/ the moment I suspect *any* sort of DNS hinkiness. Verbose, but *damn* if it doesn't hand me the answer practically every time.
We have three of those on the Tools page at wiki.outages.org: http://wiki.outages.org/index.php/Network_tools They optimize for different things, and have differing levels of verbosity, but they are all useful tools. Submissions of other such useful tools are always welcome (though the wiki is moving to larger hosting this week, and may be in read-only mode if you go there right now. ;-) There's also a collection of system/network status page links there: http://wiki.outages.org/index.php/Main_Page#Outage_Resources I hope to find a few free hours this weekend to clean that page up a bit; link rot is no less prevalent for us than anywhere else. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274