monitoring bind with SNMP

[Jim Reid]

>>>>> "bish" == bish op <bish_op at my-deja.com> writes:

    bish> Hi all, is it possible to monitor the bind daemon's state
    bish> with SNMP, in other words, does bind have a MIB file . 

A MIB for DNS was defined in RFCs 1611 and 1612 but never implemented
in BIND AFAIK.

    bish> For instance can i check the number of queries

The stats report in the name server's logs that BIND produces by
default every hour contains this sort of information.