Monitoring tool?

[Ringr]

Are there any tools to monitor a nameserver so that you can see when new domain names are hosted or taken off on/from that nameserver?

Thanks,
Andy

 

[Kate]

Good question. I don't know if that kind of monitoring tool is available somewhere but you could make your own. Basically you just need to make ARP requests and this could be automated by a cron job (say once per day), then you compare changes with the previous results and you can see the changes (names in, names out) :gl:
It's the same thing that we do to produce lists of expiring domain names: comparing the newer zone file with the previous one and make a 'diff' to see the changes between the two.
Hope this helps. If you find that tool online, let us know... it's an interesting tool to have handy :tu:

 

[fredo]

You can have a look at http://www.domainpunch.com, they have some domain name software that would do the job.