Detailed logging of dynamic updates

Treptow, Craig Treptow.Craig at principal.com
Wed Jan 17 20:33:55 UTC 2001




> -----Original Message-----
> From: peter at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu.invalid
> [mailto:peter at icke-reklam.ipsec.nu.invalid]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 10:12 AM
> To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
> Subject: Re: Detailed logging of dynamic updates
> 
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> 
> Treptow, Craig <Treptow.Craig at principal.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi.  We are running 8.2.2-p5 on AIX.  We do dynamic updates 
> that are aut=
> omated by sending the update command as a message via MQ 
> Series.  Occasion=
> ally there are problems with the update where it appears some 
> of the updat=
> es worked, while others seem to have failed.  This just 
> happened again las=
> t night, but the last thing in the log mentioned below was 
> logged last yea=
> r.  I have this in my logging statement:
> 
> Is it IBM's version of bind ?  (they made a number of changes 
> which makes
> it off-track with official bind)

Nope.  It's straight off of ISC's site.
> 
> 
> > channel update_file {
> > file "/usr/local/named/logs/named.update" versions 5 size 1M;
> > print-time yes;
> > print-category no;
> > print-severity yes;
> > };
> 
> > category update { update_file; };
> 
> > With this, the log only has things such as:
> 
> > 20-Dec-2000 14:07:11.667 error: error processing update 
> packet (YXRRSET)=
>  id 35498 from [162.131.2.17].62831
> 
> > By the time we hear of the problem, any evidence, or clue I 
> might have g=
> otten from the .ixfr or .log files for the zone is lost, 
> because the chang=
> es logged in those files have been merged with the zone file.
> 
> > Is there any way to get BIND to log more detail regarding 
> the update req=
> uests it receives, or the updates it has done?  The 
> information stored in =
> the .log and .ixfr files would be great to have on a more 
> permanent basis.=
>   I've searched through the archives, but couldn't find 
> anything regarding=
>  this kind of detailed logging.=20=20
> 
> > Any help is appreciated.
> 
> > Thanks!
> 
> > Craig Treptow
> > Principal Financial Group
> > I/S Network Administration
> > (515) 247-6207
> 
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