Stats clarification

[Michael Kjorling]

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Without having looked closely at it, I would guess that the numerals
give query types which were not translated into a "real" RR type, like
SOA, NS, A, TXT etc. MAILB is, according to RFC 1035 section 3.2.3
(QTYPE values):

 MAILB        253 A request for mailbox-related records (MB, MG or MR)


Michael Kjörling


On Jun 1 2001 10:48 -0400, Dave Paper wrote:

> I poked through the bind-users archives @ isc.org, and found Kevin Darcy's
> explanation of the DNS stats output quite useful
> (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bind-users&m=97172754621769&w=2).
> However, I can't quite figure out all of the fields that NSTATS outputs.
>
> 31-May-2001 00:00:41.861 NSTATS 991281641 980865781 0=1265 A=80630699
> NS=4428 CNAME=678617 SOA=2373103 MB=10544 MG=81532 MR=14520 PTR=131693
> HINFO=20 MINFO=2 MX=16062319 TXT=385 RP=8 AFSDB=4 AAAA=435859 LOC=78
> SRV=43712 38=3541 98=1 AXFR=69310 MAILB=33476 MAILA=1 ANY=4709394
>
> The A, NS, CNAME, et al fields are obvious, but the entries like
> "38=3541", "98=1" and "MAILB=33476" have got me stumped.  I took a look at
> ns_stats.c, and didn't see any legend for deciphering these non-obvious
> entries.
>
> Any suggestions or pointers would be helpful,
>
> Thanks!
>
> -dave

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