Stats clarification

[Kevin Darcy]

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.

MAILB is an obsolete query type (see RFC 1035, Section 8.2). The numeric
buckets are query types that the nameserver doesn't recognize, so it just
shows the numeric value of the QTYPE instead of a mnemonic.


- Kevin