Retrieving stats with BIND9

[Barry Margolin]

In article <ci4av1$lt6$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Richard King <sailorking at gmail.com> wrote:

> Windows 2000
> BIND 9.2.4rc8
> 
> 
> I'm a newbie to the BIND world and i'm coming from MS DNS.  In MS DNS
> it was easy for me to get all known stats for how it was performing
> such as recursive queries per second and so forth using the
> Performance Monitor and attaching the MS DNS Counters.  My question is
> how can i get the same type of stats from BIND?
> 
> I would want how many queries it is processing a min, the error rate
> etc.  I have done "rndc stats" but that only displays a few things and
> it seems to be a running total, and not what the current load is. 
> Although i love when people answer me straight out, i also am a whore
> for information (that sounded weird :|) so pointing me to BIND on
> Windows 2000 sites is also very much welcome.

Every hour it logs the current running stats.  To get per-second 
averages, you find two messages in the log, subtract the corresponding 
values from them, and divide by the number of seconds between them.

-- 
Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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