monitoring BIND

[Romskie L]

You can use dig to get a sample of the response time and rndc stats to
get query and nameserver statistics.



On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Romskie L <rslaranjo at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Karl,
>
> Have you considered using dig?
>
> -Romskie
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>> We have some nameservers :-) that are used by quite a few thousands of
>> people. Every now and then someone comes to us and complains that the
>> DNS is responding slowly. Sometimes they are right, and we find the
>> problem and fix it. But most of the time everything runs fine, and the
>> DNS is not, in fact, responding slowly when that someone comes to
>> complain. It turns out to be their PC, or a local network issue, or
>> whatever.
>>
>> So we have a homegrown system in place that watches the traffic to and
>> from the nameservers, matches queries to answers, ignores everything
>> else, and notes how long it was between the question going past and the
>> answer going past in the opposite direction. It writes summarised
>> information second by second into a database so we can see exactly when
>> problems with response times happen, how long they happen for, and how
>> bad they are when they happen.
>>
>> Our system has two faults (well, two that we are actually concerned
>> about): It only watches UDP, and it can't deal with fragmented packets.
>>
>> So I was wondering if there is a better solution out there?
>>
>> Regards, K.
>>
>> --
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> Karl Auer (kauer at biplane.com.au)                   +61-2-64957160 (h)
>> http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer/                   +61-428-957160 (mob)
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