Questions about BIND statistics (long)

Joaquin J. Domens jdomens at corp.terra.es
Wed Feb 19 17:35:15 UTC 2003


Hi all,
I'm doing some analysis on my dns servers so I've dumped ndc stats on
the server, what looks strange to me are the global numbers.....

The scenario is the same described in a previous thread=20
"Questions about dns performance"
4 netras T1/512 MB each LB, arrowpoint /Bind 8.3.4.

But to my surprise the statistics are the following (in one box) .....

type is: A 211561074=20
type is: PTR 29226244=20
type is: ANY 369359=20
type is: MX 2997416=20
type is: NS 236979=20
type is: CNAME 60557=20
type is: SOA 7951419=20
type is: SRV 5665687=20
type is: AAAA 743583=20
TOTAL 258812318

Running times .....
708429  time since boot (secs)=20

this will cause 365.3 q/sec. which is a total mess .......

According to O'reilly's book (not the last edition)
"If the number you come up with for your server seems out of line, look at =
which hosts=20
are making all the queries and decide if it makes sense for them to be
making all those queries"

But I don't if it's because of the LB or what I don't see any hosts in
the named.stats file but this kind of entries ....
What this TYPExx queries means ?
Is that a normal behaviour or is influenced by the loadbalncing?

Sorry guys but I'm getting lost at this point ..........any feedback
will be greatly appreciated.

TIA


****************+++stats begin+++++*******************************+
+++ Statistics Dump +++ (1045675441) Wed Feb 19 18:24:01 2003
708429  time since boot (secs)
106016  time since reset (secs)
448525  Unknown query types
211608533       A queries
236999  NS queries
60      MD queries
1       MF queries
60568   CNAME queries
7952564 SOA queries
1       MB queries
2       MG queries
2       MR queries
1       NULL queries
3       WKS queries
29231384        PTR queries
31      HINFO queries
5       MINFO queries
2997707 MX queries
3579    TXT queries
0       RP queries
1       AFSDB queries
14      X25 queries
0       ISDN queries
0       RT queries
314     NSAP queries
0       NSAP_PTR queries
1       SIG queries
4       KEY queries
0       PX queries
6       GPOS queries
743711  AAAA queries
1143    LOC queries
0       NXT queries
0       EID queries
0       NIMLOC queries
5666600 SRV queries
0       ATMA queries
0       NAPTR queries
0       KX queries
0       CERT queries
72412   A6 queries
2       DNAME queries
0       SINK queries
0       OPT queries
1       TYPE42 queries
0       TYPE43 queries
1       TYPE44 queries
0       TYPE45 queries
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1       TYPE49 queries
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1       TKEY queries
0       TSIG queries
0       IXFR queries
24      AXFR queries
1       MAILB queries
0       MAILA queries
369407  ANY queries
++ Name Server Statistics ++
(Legend)
        RR      RNXD    RFwdR   RDupR   RFail
        RFErr   RErr    RAXFR   RLame   ROpts
        SSysQ   SAns    SFwdQ   SDupQ   SErr
        RQ      RIQ     RFwdQ   RDupQ   RTCP
        SFwdR   SFail   SFErr   SNaAns  SNXD
        RUQ     RURQ    RUXFR   RUUpd
(Global)
        77865552 39443823 30336263 14931 2195114  1196520 639288 23 2004367=
 0  29982740 277860654 39546880=20
29813878 0  259427997 29 39546880 161 1192841  30336263 51210 0
221588436 56651435  0 0 15 0
-- Name Server Statistics --
--- Statistics Dump --- (1045675441) Wed Feb 19 18:24:01 2003
***************+++++++++stats end ++++++**************




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