Retrieving stats with BIND9

[Richard King]

Barry thanks for the reply!

> Every hour it logs the current running stats.  To get per-second
> averages, you find two messages in the log, subtract the corresponding
> values from them, and divide by the number of seconds between them.

However, i was under the impression that BIND 9.2.4 did not log the
stats or have a category statistics available?? am i missing
something?  I guess i could dump the stats using RNDC STATS but it
just seemed there was almost nothing there.

thoughts??

thanks again



On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:38:55 -0400, Barry Margolin <barmar at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> In article <ci4av1$lt6$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
> 
> 
> Richard King <sailorking at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Windows 2000
> > BIND 9.2.4rc8
> >
> >
> > I'm a newbie to the BIND world and i'm coming from MS DNS.  In MS DNS
> > it was easy for me to get all known stats for how it was performing
> > such as recursive queries per second and so forth using the
> > Performance Monitor and attaching the MS DNS Counters.  My question is
> > how can i get the same type of stats from BIND?
> >
> > I would want how many queries it is processing a min, the error rate
> > etc.  I have done "rndc stats" but that only displays a few things and
> > it seems to be a running total, and not what the current load is.
> > Although i love when people answer me straight out, i also am a whore
> > for information (that sounded weird :|) so pointing me to BIND on
> > Windows 2000 sites is also very much welcome.
> 
> Every hour it logs the current running stats.  To get per-second
> averages, you find two messages in the log, subtract the corresponding
> values from them, and divide by the number of seconds between them.
> 
> --
> Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
> Arlington, MA
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