DNS Query stats

rwatson at OFDA.NET rwatson at OFDA.NET
Sun Apr 7 04:53:22 UTC 2002


Nice graphs.  Would you happen to have sample scripts that you would share?

-----Original Message-----
From: bert hubert [mailto:ahu at ds9a.nl]
Sent: Saturday, April 06, 2002 7:42 AM
To: comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org
Subject: Re: DNS Query stats

In article <a8juio$953 at pub3.rc.vix.com>, Joseph Begumisa wrote:
>
>
> Does anyone know of any tool that I can use to generate graphs of dns
> query statistics for a particular server?

MRTG can accept output from shellscripts:

http://213.244.168.217/

Works by writing a script that outputs statistics like this:

number
number
name-of-your-server
uptime-of-your-server

You then feed this to mrtg like this:

Target[udp-queries]: `yourscript udp-queries udp-answers`
Options[udp-queries]: growright,nopercent,perminute
MaxBytes[udp-queries]: 10000
AbsMax[udp-queries]: 10000
Title[udp-queries]: Queries per minute
PageTop[udp-queries]: <H2>Queries per minute</H2>
WithPeak[udp-queries]: ymwd
YLegend[udp-queries]: queries/minute
ShortLegend[udp-queries]: q/m
LegendI[udp-queries]: udp-questions
LegendO[udp-queries]: udp-answers

Note the backticks around `yourscript`.

Regards,

bert hubert

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