RNDC STATS - What is the meaning of the contents ?

[Tahirul.Amran@time.net]

Hi all

I run "rndc stats" and found these items in "named.stats" file. How do I
interprate it ? Are they accumulated figures ?

- Statistics Dump 
- success 
- referral 
- nxrrset 
- nxdomain 
- recursion 
- failure 


as at 19:30
+++ Statistics Dump +++ (1014201722)
success 7074722
referral 42509
nxrrset 365948
nxdomain 2357786
recursion 1953898
failure 360295
--- Statistics Dump --- (1014201722)

as at 19:40
+++ Statistics Dump +++ (1014202776)
success 7115381
referral 42749
nxrrset 368001
nxdomain 2369406
recursion 1966664
failure 363360
--- Statistics Dump --- (1014202776)

as at 19:50
+++ Statistics Dump +++ (1014203922)
success 7156795
referral 43004
nxrrset 370288
nxdomain 2380969
recursion 1979501
failure 366668
--- Statistics Dump --- (1014203922)