dns stats (fwd)

[Barry Margolin]

In article <a8im3d$6i0 at pub3.rc.vix.com>,
Art Houle  <houle at zeppo.acns.fsu.edu> wrote:
>  We are running "named 8.2.3-REL" and I am trying to get stats so that I
>can put them into mrtg for graphing.  However I am having a problem with
>the command to get stats and would like input is anybody can interpret the
>error message I get back:
>
>dns1# /usr/sbin/ndc stats
>ndc: error: ctl_client: evConnect(fd 3): No such file or directory
>ndc: error: cannot connect to command channel (/var/run/ndc)

Does your named.conf file have a "controls" statement that puts the command
channel somewhere other than /var/run/ndc?  If so, you need to use the -c
option to ndc to tell it where the channel is.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at genuity.net
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