statistics file

[CB]

I'm hoping someone can help as I am completely confused and the BIND ARM
doesnt answer my questions. For one it doesnt explain what categories are
inclusive of others, if any, which I would think some are.
For example:

I would think that authoritative answers are included in succesful
answers...logical but clearly cant be if you look at the numbers below.

I would think "responses sent" would be inclusive of
success/auth,non-auth,nxrrset, nxdomain, and recursion. Again, the math
doesnt add up.

I would expect things like IPv4 rcvd and EDNS rcvd/snt to be spread out
across all of the other categories.

When it comes down to it, I really just want to find out how many
authoritative requests each of my nameservers are handling per second or
minute or hour.

++ Name Server Statistics ++
            29632304 IPv4 requests received
            15686952 requests with EDNS(0) received
            26043352 auth queries rejected
              235235 recursive queries rejected
                  97 update requests rejected
            29394860 responses sent
            15686952 responses with EDNS(0) sent
             1886089 queries resulted in successful answer
             3055142 queries resulted in authoritative answer
                 913 queries resulted in non authoritative answer
              763935 queries resulted in nxrrset
              406031 queries resulted in NXDOMAIN
                 120 queries caused recursion
            26100395 other query failures



Also, it doesnt really explain what qualifies to fall into each category,
only a reiteration of what the category is. For example what qualifies as
"other query failures"? What differentiates a NXRRSET from an NXDOMAIN?

Is there a LEG (Layman Explanation Guide) out there that might assume one
doesnt know this and go into a little more depth on some of the definitions?
hahahahaha....but seriously?

Help Please?

TIA,
Chris

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