Enable logging for a single zone in BIND 8.2.3?

Sean Carolan scarolan at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 22:34:14 UTC 2007


> I consider this a feature request since AFAIK there's no way to do this
> with BIND currently.

Thank you for clarifying this for me, Kevin.  I've inherited a cluster
of DNS servers that has several dozen zones configured.  I suspect
most of these zones are defunct, not in use, etc. but I want to watch
the logs to be absolutely sure.  In addition to being authoritative
servers for these zones, they also serve as general-purpose DNS
servers for a particular environment.

I guess I could log everything and pipe the data through grep to
extract info about hosts in a particular zone.

> In the meantime, in the absence of such a feature, probably your best
> bet is to keep your logging on a short leash (you can control the amount
> of disk space and/or versions that are kept) and just extract what you
> want from it.

Great, this is the answer I was looking for.

Thanks,

Sean



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