too much activity

[Mark Andrews]

> Markus Plannerer <mp at no.erpa.spam.de> wrote:
> > Hello,
> 
> > we have updated from BIND8 to BIND9 and in the new
> > named.conf logging is enabled by:
> > logging {
> > 	channel query_logging {
> > 		file "/var/log/named_querylog"
> > 			versions 3 size 100M;
> > 		print-time yes;			// timestamp log entries
> > 	};
> > 	category queries {
> > 		query_logging;
> > 	};
> > 	category lame-servers { null; };
> > };
> 
> > Now there is every second a entry in the log like:
> > Aug 09 20:05:17.017 client 127.0.0.1#32844: query: 
> > 130.15.227.212.in-addr.arpa IN PTR
> > Aug 09 20:05:18.028 client 127.0.0.1#32844: query: 
> > 130.15.227.212.in-addr.arpa IN PTR
> > Aug 09 20:05:19.027 client 127.0.0.1#32844: query: 
> > 130.15.227.212.in-addr.arpa IN PTR
> > Aug 09 20:05:20.038 client 127.0.0.1#32844: query: 
> > 130.15.227.212.in-addr.arpa IN PTR
> > and so on and so ...
> 
> 
> > Can anybody give me a hint?
> 
> You have querylogging turned on. The reason is that whenever you mention 
> "query-loggin" in the logging section it's assumed to be tunred on.
> 
> The straightforward mechanism ought to be an new options-statement "query-log
>  {on | off}"
> ( isc are you listening ?)


	Have you looked at 9.3.0?
 
1537.   [func]          New option "querylog".  If set specify whether query 
                        logging is to be enabled or disabled at startup.

> > Thanks Markus
> 
> 
> 
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> Peter Håkanson         
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