+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #2251959 +++ During report on bind-utils for RHEL9, it were found dig plugin fails to correctly match name looked for. It depends on wrong assumption that each record type is delimited by tab. That is not necessary the case. https://github.com/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins/pull/745 Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. dnf install bind-utils nagios-plugins dnsmasq 2. echo 'address=/12-345678example.com/172.23.75.243' > /etc/dnsmasq.d/long.conf 3. systemctl restart dnsmasq 4. /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_dig -l lxos-monitoring-probe.12-345678example.com -a 172.23.75.243 Actual Results: # /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_dig -l lxos-monitoring-probe.12-345678example.com -a 172.23.75.243 DNS WARNING - 0.012 seconds response time (Server not found in ANSWER SECTION)|time=0.011995s;;;0.000000 Expected Results: $ ./check_dig -l lxos-monitoring-probe.12-345678example.com -a 172.23.75.243 -t 600 DNS OK - 0,044 seconds response time (lxos-monitoring-probe.12-345678example.com. 10 IN A 172.23.75.243)|time=0,044113s;;;0,000000 Caused by commit https://github.com/nagios-plugins/nagios-plugins/commit/cbdfd8a9bd83ed22dc6e9b3e5104ed81de388596