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Tricia_94121
Nimbostratus
Jul 12, 2011BIND Statistics?
We are migrating all of our DNS zones to our new GTM appliances (1600). Eventually we will start using Wide IPs, but we are not ready yet. I still want to be able to get stats on how many hits our zo...
JRahm
Admin
Aug 08, 2011They might not support the BIND stats from a PD or troubleshooting standpoint, but it still works just fine. Just configure named.conf as you would on a normal BIND server. I did a quick test adding:
zone-statistics yes;
to my test.com zone and then kicked off an rndc stats at the command line, which generated named.stats as expected in /var/named/config/namedb:
[root@golgotha:Active] namedb cat named.stats
+++ Statistics Dump +++ (1312814126)
++ Incoming Requests ++
272 QUERY
4 UPDATE
++ Incoming Queries ++
132 A
4 SOA
132 AAAA
4 AXFR
++ Outgoing Queries ++
[View: external]
[View: _bind]
++ Name Server Statistics ++
276 IPv4 requests received
12 TCP requests received
132 recursive queries rejected
272 responses sent
70 queries resulted in successful answer
136 queries resulted in authoritative answer
66 queries resulted in nxrrset
132 other query failures
4 requested transfers completed
4 updates completed
++ Zone Maintenance Statistics ++
++ Resolver Statistics ++
[Common]
[View: external]
[View: _bind]
++ Cache DB RRsets ++
[View: external (Cache: external)]
[View: _bind (Cache: _bind)]
++ Socket I/O Statistics ++
2 UDP/IPv4 sockets opened
1 UDP/IPv6 sockets opened
3 TCP/IPv4 sockets opened
1 TCP/IPv6 sockets opened
31 TCP/IPv4 sockets closed
32 TCP/IPv4 connections accepted
++ Per Zone Query Statistics ++
[test.com (view: external)]
66 queries resulted in successful answer
130 queries resulted in authoritative answer
64 queries resulted in nxrrset
4 requested transfers completed
1 updates completed
--- Statistics Dump --- (1312814126)
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