Mail Question

[Barry Margolin]

In article <004a01c066b2$e53a7800$d32ffea9 at icel.com>,
I. Herman <izzmo at mediaone.net> wrote:
>Is there a way to set up the DNS server to autmatically mail DNS messages
>like named going up or down, reboots, etc?  Or is that what the email in
>the SOA record does?

No.  Named does all its notifications using syslog.  I think there's a
replacement for syslogd called something like syslog-ng that gives you more
control over how messages are logged, and perhaps it can convert log
messages into mail.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
Genuity, Burlington, MA
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