statistics file

[Hays, Ken]

Having spent a few minutes doing basic arithmetic with a subset of the
values provided: 

>              1886089 queries resulted in successful answer
>              3055142 queries resulted in authoritative answer
>                  913 queries resulted in non authoritative answer
>               763935 queries resulted in nxrrset
>               406031 queries resulted in NXDOMAIN

I suggest the total of Authoritative and Non-Authoritative answers
(3,056,055) includes 
Successful answers, nxrrset and NXDOMAIN. 

Hopefully, the assertion above helps remove the confusion. Further
discovery of which 
counts are included in others remains as an open challenge. Later, Ken


-----Original Message-----
From: bind-users-bounce at isc.org [mailto:bind-users-bounce at isc.org] On
Behalf Of Kevin Darcy
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:13 PM
To: bind-users at isc.org
Subject: Re: statistics file

JINMEI Tatuya / ???? wrote:
> At Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:18:23 -0400,
> CB <bdyslm at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> I'm hoping someone can help as I am completely confused and the BIND
ARM
>> doesnt answer my questions. For one it doesnt explain what categories
are
>> inclusive of others, if any, which I would think some are.
>> For example:
>>
>> I would think that authoritative answers are included in succesful
>> answers...logical but clearly cant be if you look at the numbers
below.
>>     
>
> authoritative answers include nxdomain and nxrrset.
> successful answers include authoritative and non-authoritative
> answers.
>   
And yet, the number of "successful" answers shown in the stats output 
(previously posted) is significantly *lower* than the number of 
"authoritative" answers. Color me confused as well.

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