Lack of logging in Bind 8.4

[Barry Margolin]

In article <cuqtr6$1dbb$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Jim McNamara <jim.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ladies and Gentlemen,
> 
> I have BIND 8.4 running in a Debian stable enviornment. I've been over
> google and the archives at isc.org, but can't find a named.conf file
> that logs everything. What I would like to do is have every request
> that comes into the DSN server be logged. I know the logs will get
> huge in a short time, this isn't a permanent  setting, more just
> something to try out. Here is the log section from my named.conf:
> 
> logging{
>         channel "simple_log" {
>         file "/var/log/named/bind.log" versions 3 size 5m;
>         severity debug 10;
>         print-time yes;
>         print-severity yes;         print-category yes;
>         };
> };
>
> I created the /var/log/bind/bind.log file as root, and did a chmod
> a+w, so whatever level BIND runs at it should log. In over an hour,
> not one thing has been written to this file. Is my eror something is
> the grammar of my log request?

You haven't configured any logging categories to use this channel.

You need to configure the "debug" channel, and run named with the -d 9 
option to enable full debugging.

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