logging "successes"

[Andy Shellam]

Hi Lisa,

Bind does allow for logging of successful transfers and other 
operations, e.g.:

27-Apr-2007 09:20:41.861 zone andyshellam.eu/IN: loaded serial 2007041451

01-May-2007 20:33:32.815 zone nagioslookingglass.co.uk/IN: Transfer started.
01-May-2007 20:33:32.904 zone nagioslookingglass.co.uk/IN: transferred 
serial 2007041117

08-May-2007 08:53:09.131 transfer of 'andyshellam.eu/IN' from 
89.200.137.203#53: connected using 82.165.38.62#43255
08-May-2007 08:53:09.213 transfer of 'andyshellam.eu/IN' from 
89.200.137.203#53: end of transfer

Look up the logging {} section in the administrator manual.

Once you've changed the main Bind configuration file, it's always a good 
idea to test it using "named-checkconf /path/to/named.conf".
This will output any errors without affecting the running server, 
however I do agree it'd be useful to have a "config file OK" 
confirmation, like "named-checkzone" does.

Andy.

Lisa Casey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Bind 9.3.0 on FreeBSD. I've noticed that when there is a failure 
> of some sort, it gets logged in /var/log/messages, such as these two:
>
> May 14 07:57:17 netlink named[294]: client 209.149.56.11#46613: zone 
> transfer '185.191.207.in-addr.arpa/IXFR/IN' denied
>
>
> May 14 10:32:17 netlink named[294]: reloading configuration failed: failure
> May 14 10:32:34 netlink named[294]: /etc/namedb/named.conf:129: missing ';' 
> before '}'
>
> But when I fixed this, and these two events now suceed, nothing is logged. I 
> can tell when a rndc reload succeeds because I don't get an error message 
> when I issue the command, but it would still be nice to have a confirmation 
> of that logged. Same with the zone transfer - the error  message in the logs 
> isn't happening anymore, so I assume my zone transfers are now taking place, 
> but it would be nice to have a log confirmation of that.
>
> Can I have Bind log these successes or is that just not the way it happens?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lisa Casey
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