[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#1085411: monitoring-plugins-standard: check_dns does not support -q icinga2 command defines

[Florian Lohoff]

Package: monitoring-plugins-standard
Version: 2.4.0-1
Severity: normal

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Hi,
in /usr/share/icinga2/include/command-plugins.conf there is a definition
for a "dns" check using /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_dns (from
monitoring-plugins-standard) and defines a command line option which 
the check_dns does not support - For example the "-q" for
query type (I didnt try more). (See also #1085355)

I am unshure whether this is an issue in an old check_dns beeing
distributed by monitoring-plugins-basic - or the "-q" beeing falsely
added to the icinga2-common plugins definition:

object CheckCommand "dns" {
        import "ipv4-or-ipv6"

        command = [ PluginDir + "/check_dns" ]

        arguments = {
                "-H" = {
                        value = "$dns_lookup$"
                        description = "The name or address you want to query."
                }
                "-s" = {
                        value = "$dns_server$"
                        description = "Optional DNS server you want to use for the lookup."
                }
                "-q" = {
                        value = "$dns_query_type$"
                        description = "Optional DNS record query type where TYPE =(A, AAAA, SRV, TXT, MX, ANY). The default query type is 'A' (IPv4 host entry)"
                }
[ ... ]


root at trixie-95838:# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_dns  -q
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_dns: invalid option -- 'q'
Usage:
check_dns -H host [-s server] [-a expected-address] [-n] [-A] [-t timeout] [-w warn] [-c crit] [-L]

I opened #1085355 against icinga2-common which provides /usr/share/icinga2/include/command-plugins.conf
and it was closed because the icinga2 supported check_dns does indeed support the "-q"

I dont think this is the right way to deal with this as Debian as a whole should be interop within
itself which in this case it isnt. So when icinga2 needs non debian provided binaries to work
it should be in contrib not main.

Anyway - i am now asking to update check_dns.

Flo

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