write hostnames to query_logging?

Sam Wilson Sam.Wilson at ed.ac.uk
Mon Dec 1 19:14:10 UTC 2003


In article <bqg39f$1d1m$1 at sf1.isc.org>, dassom <needno at spam.nl> wrote:

> I would like to have BIND9.2.1 to write hostnames instead of
> ip-addresses to the query log. Is this possible?
> I have reverse lookup set-up in bind

Not a good plan.  By the time you come to look at your log you may find
that the DNS mapping between address and name has changed.  Writing
names AND addresses might be added value but replacing addresses by
names probably isn't.

Sam Wilson
Infrastructure Services Division
Computing Services, The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK


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