Logging lookups?

[Kevin Darcy]

I'm not sure why that didn't work. /tmp is writable by whatever
ID "named" is running as, right? To be quite honest, though, I've never
configured a channel for category "packets".

In any case, I think you'd get more useful information from the
"queries" category.


- Kevin

Carl Rueder wrote:

> Hi!
>
> How can I configure BIND to log outgoing lookups (e.g. time, date, which
> address was looked up, etc.)?
>
> I've tried:
>
> logging {
>     channel testdump {
>         file "/tmp/dns.dump";
>     };
>     category packet { testdump; };
> };
>
> But the file isn't created nor can I find the information anywhere.
>
> bye
> Carl