BIND on Windows - Event Log entries

Danny Mayer mayer at gis.net
Sun Oct 14 04:31:41 UTC 2007


Jim McAtee wrote:
> From: "Danny Mayer"
>> Jim McAtee wrote:
>>> In the Windows builds, can the 'automatic empty zone' entries be
>>> suppressed from the Application Log?  There just seems to be a lot
>>> superfluous stuff being logged there.  I get something like 18 
>>> Application
>>> Log entries every time BIND is started.
>> See the ARM (chapter 6?) on logging.
> 
> Thanks, but nothing in the ARM jumps out at me.  Certainly no mention of 
> Windows and the use of event logs instead of channels or file output for 
> this type of event.
> 

It wouldn't reference either Windows or the event log. This is not
Windows-specific. If you can do it at all it would be doable for all O/S's.

Danny

> I tried explicitly directing a few different logging categories into a 
> channel and then a file (config, general, default, security), but it has 
> no effect on what is sent to the Windows Application log.  The only thing 
> that suppresses all the empty-zone messages is to disable empty zones, but 
> I'm guessing that's generally not a good idea.
> 
> empty-zones-enable no; 
> 
> 
> 



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