Strange logfiles ( .xfer files)

Mark_Andrews at isc.org Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Wed Oct 13 21:14:30 UTC 1999


	Well firstly the current release version is 8.2.1, I would
	suggest that you use it rather that 8.1.2.  As for the
	files they are the result of running with debugging turned
	on and record the debugging output from named-xfer.

	Mark

> Hi
> I have started to upgrade my Bind servers 4.9.x to Bind 8.1.2
> I wanted to use the new features with logging and i made a config-
> file which would allow me to log all querys in 4 rotating files with
> a limit of 20 mbytes. This works fine, but my problem is that i
> now get a lot of temporary xfer files in my named directory. This
> appends for all the domains that my server act as a secondary.
> Does anyone have a clue about how to setup so i wont get these files?
> The xfer files have the following names: xfer.ddt.asdasdqw (random
> letters ) and domain name.sdfdsfef and so on.
> The xfer files contains following info:
> 
> domain `mydomain.se'; file `mydomain.hosts'; serial 1999100801
> domain `mydomain.se'; ixfrfile `mydomain.hosts.ixfr.tmp'; serial
> 1999100801
> zone found (2): "mydomain.se", source = mydomain.hosts
> addrcnt = 1
> getzone() mydomain.se secondary
> 
> 
> My logging config looks like this:
> 
> logging {
>                         channel my_syslog {
>                         syslog daemon;
>                         severity info;
> };
>                               channel dns_logging {
>                               file "/var/log/query.log" versions 4 size
> 20m;
>                               severity dynamic;
> };
>                         category default { my_syslog; };
>                         category statistics { my_syslog; dns_logging; };
>                     category queries {dns_logging; };
>                         category xfer-in { dns_logging; };
>                         category xfer-out { dns_logging; };
> 
> I start named with the following extension: named -d 1
> 
> Best Regards
> Anders
> 
> 
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> 
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