Bind Stats

[Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)]

Those figures are the number of query statistics since Bind was (re)started.

I don't know if it's the best way to do this, but at midnight every day 
on my server I run a script which runs "rndc stats", restarts the Bind 
service, then analyses the stats gathered from the "named.stats" file 
(particularly it separates the values and adds them into a database 
table against yesterday's date.)

This way as long as the script restarts Bind OK, I can find the number 
of queries per day/month/hour/whatever per DNS server.

Andy.

Gregory Hicks wrote:
>> From: "Kris McElroy" <kmcelroy at duracom.net>
>> To: <comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org>
>> Subject: Bind Stats
>> Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:25:27 -0600
>>
>> Gathering Stats for bind.  I am running bind 9.2.3 on FreeBSD.  Is there
>> anyway to see the queries per minute or hour?  I did the following 
>>
>> Rndc stats
>>
>> +++ Statistics Dump +++ (1168280480)
>> success 76841728
>> referral 86646
>> nxrrset 12989134
>> nxdomain 36555468
>> recursion 40051315
>> failure 2963575
>> --- Statistics Dump --- (1168280480)
>>     
>
> This tells you the cumulative stats at whatever time you ran this.
>   
>> Almost A minute later I ran it again:
>>
>> +++ Statistics Dump +++ (1168280535)
>> success 76845565
>> referral 86648
>> nxrrset 12989807
>> nxdomain 36557911
>> recursion 40053491
>> failure 2963762
>> --- Statistics Dump --- (1168280535)
>>     
>
> This tells you the cumulative stats "almost a minute later" (aaml).
> The delta would be the difference between the two.
>
> Success(delta) = success(aaml) - success (0)
> or
> 3837 = 76845565 - 76841728
>
> and so on...
>
>   
>> But what does the above tell me?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kris
>>
>>
>>     
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