Lots of Failures in named.stats

Benzi Mizrahi vsbenzi at weizmann.ac.il
Fri Jun 14 07:59:51 UTC 2002


BIND ARM states that failure counter is all that don't appear in
success ,refrals nxdomain etc.

My question is , what failed queries ARE include?
will "update forwarding denied"  and recursion denied
be considered failure for this counter?

Thanx,


Benzi Mizrahi
Weizmann Institute of Science
Computing Center
Rehovot, Israel.


Nate Campi <nate at campin.net> wrote in message 
news:<aean6o$eecc$1 at isrv4.isc.org>...
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 01:33:46PM -0400, Vinson Armstead - PA wrote:
> > 
> > Can anyone provide some assistance in determining why we see so many
> > failures in our named.stats file. 
> > 
> > We are running BIND 9.2.1 on Solaris 8
> > 
> > We have setup logging but are receiving lots on "data" in the in the logs
> > files, but it is difficult to determine the source of the problem with so
> > much data.
> > 
> > +++ Statistics Dump +++ (1023989044)
> > success 152877
> > referral 181
> > nxrrset 186
> > nxdomain 64110
> > recursion 47314
> > failure 7977
> > --- Statistics Dump --- (102398904)
> 
> Without data ourselves we cannot guess accurately. Of course we can
> still guess: maybe you use private networks but didn't setup the private
> zones, generating lots of failures when trying to contact the blackhole
> nameservers?
> 
> Wild guessing aside, we need more to go on. You can put the query logs
> somewhere on the web and post *only* the URL to it here. People who want
> to help can go examine the logs.
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