Bind 8.2.1 Logging options

Barry Margolin barmar at bbnplanet.com
Fri Sep 17 21:35:12 UTC 1999


In article <7ru3d4$mu2$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>,  <nwaltham at my-deja.com> wrote:
>Hi All,
> I would like to be able to log DNS requests for bind, but at a
>slightly higher level of detail. I would like to see recorded in the
>logs if Bind answers the DNS request by forwarding the look up or if it
>answers it by getting it from the cache. Is it possible, if so how do I
>do this?

You can't get this in query logging.  If you want to see the detailed
processing that BIND is doing for queries, you have to enable tracing with
"ndc trace".  This sends debugging messages to a separate file.

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