dns_online_test.php

This script checks whether a namesserver is active by checking a single domain against it.

Usage:

dns_online_test.php [DOMAIN] [NAMESERVER]

Parameters

• DOMAIN domain to check
• NAMESERVER name server to check the domains at

Note: When no parameters are used, the parameters will be imported from the config.ini.

Example:

dns_online_test.php

Checks all the domain against the nameserver specified inside the config.ini

check_certificates.php example.de ns.example.com

Checks whether the domain 'example.de' can be sucessfully looked up using the nameserver 'ns.example.com'.

Side note: We usually use the config.ini and trigger this script once a week through a crontab entry.

# DNS Online Check
0 0 * * 1-5 <path to dns_online_test.php>