it doesn’t let you perform a test query

The script required a few tweeks to work. 1-put nagios in the named group, 2-add “sudo rndc stats”

That was it and it worked fine.

I wish there was an option to send a test query though… how about –test-query test.domain.com

That would send an alert because the query failed. (Having a PID doesn’t always mean bind is working properly.)