For a system administrator, having ready access to all kinds of information for troubleshooting or configuration of computers and networks is important. When diagnosing connectivity issues, or setting up a new Web site or server, being able to accurately get information from DNS can be critical; DNS provides a lot of information that can really help in this regard.

What is Smokeping?

SmokePing does not stand alone. It relies on various other tools and services being present. Apart from a Unix OS and a working Perl installation you need the following things. The list contains the names of the tools together with the version of the tool which I am using, and a link for downloading the tool.

Preparing anything to install Smokeping

Download Smokeping : http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/pub/smokeping-2.4.2.tar.gz

Dig is a powerful tool to investigate [digging into] the DNS system.
It can be a good replacement tool for nslookup

Source of the binary is from ftp.isc.org

dig is one of DNS tool for investigate the DNS sysyem.

How to install :