BIND logging in a separate node

[Prabhat Rana]

Jeremy,
Thanks for the response. Yes I need to change the file name to avoid confusion. Yes I can forward the syslog to a different node my making changes in the syslogger. But I'm not sure how to make such changes so that only named/bind related syslog will be forwarded and the rest will continue to log locally.




--- On Tue, 3/3/09, Jeremy C. Reed <Jeremy_Reed at isc.org> wrote:

> From: Jeremy C. Reed <Jeremy_Reed at isc.org>
> Subject: Re: BIND logging in a separate node
> To: "Prabhat Rana" <prana9533 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: bind-users at lists.isc.org
> Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2009, 11:08 AM
> > What I'm trying to do is log /var/bind/named.stats
> in a separate node. 
> 
> Note that file name is commonly used for the "rndc
> stats" statistics-file. 
> It may be a good idea to use a different name so you
> don't cause confusion 
> or conflict.
> 
> > So my question is, can I specify the node IP address
> and the filename in 
> > the named.conf where I wand to stat_file to write to?
> > If not another option is to use syslog for all the
> logging and then move 
> > the syslog to a different node. However, I want only
> bind logging to be 
> > moved to a separate node. I still want all the other
> system logging to 
> > go to /var/adm/messages as usual on the same node. So
> can I can 
> > configure either named.conf or syslog.conf or both so
> that I can move 
> > the bind logging to a separate box?
> 
> For that use the syslog and configure your Solaris 10
> syslogger to forward 
> your logging to a different syslog server. You will have to
> configure your 
> syslogger for this. Also in your named.conf's syslog
> channel, you can use 
> the "syslog" destination clause to choose which
> syslog facility to log to 
> (so you can then configure your syslogger appropriately.)
> 
> Maybe someone on this list can share some Solaris
> syslog.conf examples 
> here ...