Check PPPoE / DNS

[Stefan Pfetzing]

Hi list,

on a small router I run, on a regularly basis the PPPoE "modem" seems  
to fail.
I already am using a relay card connected to the parallel port to  
restart the modem when neccessary. The problem is now, how do I  
monitor the "pppoe" command, to find out when the PPPoE access  
concentrator is no longer availible? (currently I'm using a tcp check  
and the script via inetd, but thats not nice I think)

Also I would like to know if / how its possible to check if a dns  
server can resolve a specific domain and restart it, if it couldn't  
resolve the domain.

Thanks.

bye

Stefan

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