rndc stats query

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, David Moran wrote:

> I am implementing dnsgraph on multiple bind9 instances and and  
> generating the dns query statistics but using remote rndc calls. The  
> problem that i am facing is that no matter which remote bind9  
> instance i stat, the stats are all written to the same file and  
> therefore I cannot decipher which stats file belongs to which bind9  
> instance resulting in not being able to display separate dns query  
> information.
> 
> Has anybody come across a method of performing multiple remote rndc  
> stats calls and saving the output in separate files?

Use statistics-file option to choose file name to append to. (If I 
understand you correctly, your "multiple bind9 instance" use different 
named.conf configurations.)

(There is an alternative to "rndc stats" too in upcoming BIND 9.5.)

  Jeremy C. Reed