QUE: xfer-in/out logging

[Will Yardley]

hrmm well i realize this isn't too specific, but....
i didn't have any luck with logging on 9.1.2 - so if possible you might
want to try 9.2.0a2. i'm not trying to say that logging is broken in
earlier versions; only that i never had any luck with it; and as soon as
i installed the newer alpha release, logging started working with my
existing configuration file.

also (yeah it's obvious, but....) if you're running named as user /
group bind, make sure to chown /var/log/named to bind:bind or named
won't be able to write to the file.

our logging statement currently looks like this:

logging {
        channel "named_xfr" {
                file "/var/log/namedxfr.log";
                print-time yes;
        };
        channel "named_log" {
                file "/var/log/named.log";
                print-time yes;
        };
        category "xfer-in" { "named_xfr"; };
        category "xfer-out" { "named_xfr"; };
        category "notify" { "named_xfr"; };
        category "security" { "named_xfr"; };
        category "default" { "named_log"; "default_syslog"; };
};

-w
Mihalis Tsoukalos wrote:
> 
> Hello to everyone.
> I have the following question:
> 
> I have the impression that using the following logging options (in
> /etc/named.conf file):
> 
>         channel "xfer-out_log" {
>                 file "/var/log/named/xfer-out.log";
>                 print-time yes;
>         };
>         channel "xfer-in_log" {
>                 file "/var/log/named/xfer-in.log";
>                 print-time yes;
>         };
>         category "xfer-out" {
>                 "xfer-out_log";
>         };
>         category "xfer-in" {
>                 "xfer-in_log";
>         };
> 
> I would be able to log all the zone transfers from my server and to my
> server.
> But, this does not seam to work.
> I have tried to transfer a zone using the command:
> host -l domain name.server
> 
> What I am doing wrong?
> Can you please help me?
> 
> Bind version: 9.1.3
> OS: SuSE Linux 7.1
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> 
> ---
> Mihalis Tsoukalos
> mtsouk at freemail.gr