Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 12:50:15 +0100 From: Mark Drayton <mark.drayton@izr.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Monitoring a BIND 8 server Message-ID: <20011015125015.A34334@drex.staff.izr.com> In-Reply-To: <13399a9133a1c7.133a1c713399a9@mbox.com.au>; from bsd-freak@mbox.com.au on Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 08:32:18PM %2B1000 References: <13399a9133a1c7.133a1c713399a9@mbox.com.au>
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BSD Freak (bsd-freak@mbox.com.au) wrote:
> I am running a pair of FreeBSD 4.3 / BIND 8 DNS servers and I want to
> monitor in real time the requests being made/satisfied. Kind of the
> way you can "tail -f" a proxy/web server log file .... Anyone know how
> to do this?
You could add something like this in your named.conf:
logging {
channel log {
file "/var/log/named.log";
};
category queries { log; };
};
The queries category will quickly fill up /var if you don't keep an eye
on it. One of my (not that busy) nameservers will make about 80 megs of
logs in an hour.
Cheers,
--
Mark Drayton
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