configuration file category maps

Tim Peiffer peiffer at umn.edu
Wed Apr 13 21:58:45 UTC 2005


Has anyone created a map between Bind8 and Bind9 configurations with 
respect to logging categories?
I am trying to move recursive servers from 8.4.7 to 9.3.1 and I am 
noting some differences.

Section 6.2.10 of the ARM lists all the categories, many of the Bind8 
categories don't
look like the have an equivalent.  Some look like they have been renamed..
Example db -> database.

Tim Peiffer
Networking and Telecommunications Services.
University of Minnesota

*default*

	

The default category defines the logging options for those categories 
where no specific configuration has been defined.

*general*

	

The catch-all. Many things still aren't classified into categories, and 
they all end up here.

*database*

	

Messages relating to the databases used internally by the name server to 
store zone and cache data.

*security*

	

Approval and denial of requests.

*config*

	

Configuration file parsing and processing.

*resolver*

	

DNS resolution, such as the recursive lookups performed on behalf of 
clients by a caching name server.

*xfer-in*

	

Zone transfers the server is receiving.

*xfer-out*

	

Zone transfers the server is sending.

*notify*

	

The NOTIFY protocol.

*client*

	

Processing of client requests.

*unmatched*

	

Messages that named was unable to determine the class of or for which 
there was no matching *view*. A one line summary is also logged to the 
*client* category. This category is best sent to a file or stderr, by 
default it is sent to the *null* channel.

*network*

	

Network operations.

*update*

	

Dynamic updates.

*queries*

	

Queries. Using the category *queries* will enable query logging.

*dispatch*

	

Dispatching of incoming packets to the server modules where they are to 
be processed.

*dnssec*

	

DNSSEC and TSIG protocol processing.

*lame-servers*

	

Lame servers. These are misconfigurations in remote servers, discovered 
by BIND 9 when trying to query those servers during resolution.

*delegation-only*

	

Delegation only. Logs queries that have have been forced to NXDOMAIN as 
the result of a delegation-only zone or a *delegation-only* in a stub or 
forward zone declartation.




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