Patching bind for additional stats - any tips?

[Feng He]

Sounds a great project. I wish google's improved BIND is as well as gmail.

Regards.

On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Alex Kolchinski <kolchinski at google.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone - I'm at Google and currently starting on a mini-project to get
> some more insight into how our BIND servers are performing. Our first
> thoughts on how to add logging on metrics we're interested in are currently
> to patch BIND to spit out the wanted stats directly from BIND (data on each
> query, perhaps aggregated). An alternative to this would be to try to match
> the incoming and outgoing request and response packets and amass the data
> from that, but our attempts at data gathering through sniffing have given
> unreliable results. (One alternative I've stumbled upon is DSC