Smokeping container support

LSIO Discussion Container Support
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Hello everybody,

I installed docker and smokeping (your container), and it is nice.

However, I noticed two problems:

  • the Probe AnotherDNS is not up to date (expect_text and require_nxdomain variables are not implemented). I was able to fix it by replacing the Probe by the latest one in official Smokeping git from within the container itself:
cd /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Smokeping/probes/
mv AnotherDNS.pm AnotherDNS.pm.bkp
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oetiker/SmokePing/master/lib/Smokeping/probes/AnotherDNS.pm

So you could easily fix that one.

  • the other problem is that the traceroute in the container is the one from busybox, and it can be very slow, making the TraceroutePing almost useless.
    How can I install a recent binary of traceping and traceping6 in the container? I am new to Docker, and I tried to copy the traceroute from the host into the container, but it does not work.
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Hello, the easiest thing to do if you’d like to modify our containers is review https://blog.linuxserver.io/2019/09/14/customizing-our-containers/ and pick the solution that works best for you. I suspect a mod might be best, but there are easier/quicker methods listed.

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Thank you. This is helpful. :grinning:
However, I hope you will look into the AnotherDNS probe that is not up to date with the latest official one (cf. initial post).

For my other question (traceroute), I found another way to use the provided busybox implementation of traceroute as I could not find a compatible binary for this docker container.
Do you have a development container compatible with the smokeping one (Alpine environment I believe) on which one could build binaries that could then be exported to other containers?