Logging Response Results

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 01:58:37PM -0700, Phil Mayers wrote:
> On 06/23/2011 09:27 PM, Stefan Certic wrote:
> > Thanks Chuck
> >
> > Yes, that would be a solution, but i need logs processed through syslog and
> > stored into database (matching the initial query from query log).
> >
> > Pharsing tcpdump is not going to be suitable for highly loaded system. I was
> > more looking for a solution to log responses same way queryes are logged.
> 
> The problem is that queries and responses are not the same type of 
> thing. A query contains a single question, and is usually relatively 
> small. A response can contain multiple answers, and multiple types of 
> answer, and with DNSSEC they can get big.
> 
> There's no inherent reason parsing tcpdump needs to be slow. It's 
> written in C.
> 
> Anyway: bind itself cannot log answers. You will need to patch the 
> source if you want this.

Don't mean to venture into off-topic territory, but....

If you're handy with Python, pcapy[1] and impacket[2] would likely be a
more efficient way to parse DNS traffic for query  responses than
working with tcpdump output natively (unless you're skilled with C).

Ray

[1] http://oss.coresecurity.com/projects/pcapy.html
[2] http://oss.coresecurity.com/projects/impacket.html