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JamesS_40157
Nimbostratus
Oct 19, 2011irule for logging DNS queries to the load balancer?
Hi all, Before I get into what seems like an easy question and obvious answer, first a bit of background! We are about to refresh our current production load balancers (running...
JamesS_40157
Nimbostratus
Oct 20, 2011Hi Michael,
Many thanks for the reply - you've confirmed my suspicions that I'd have to modify named.conf to include a logging section. Unfortunately I am very wary of doing this on our production load balancers due to the sheer number of queries they handle per second, i can imagine the logs filling up within minutes.
I think what i may do in this case is set up a mirror port on the external interface of the load balancer and simply snoop for DNS traffic - it's ugly and will require some analysis to get the data out, but it'll work and it won't affect the load balancer performance. Thanks for the replies guys!