bind caching dns

Ben benjo11111 at gmail.com
Tue May 15 08:05:14 UTC 2012


Hi,

Any clue to resolve this.

BR
Ben
> Hi Matthew,
>
> Sorry for late response.I enabled statistics-channel , and it gives 
> web based output.What is caching hit ratio filed , i mean which option 
> / filed tell us about how many queries comes from cache or...?
>
> BR
> Ben
>> On 08/05/2012 10:09, Ben wrote:
>>> I am new with bind.I am trying to configure bind as caching server for
>>> our network.I configure it and it works successfully.
>>>
>>> Can we get report or statistics something which shows which queries
>>> resolved from cache and which resolved from internet?
>> Yes. Add a section something like this (adapt for your own IP range and
>> whatever port number you prefer):
>>
>> statistics-channels {
>>      inet 192.0.2.1   port 8080 allow { trusted; };
>>      inet 2001:db8::1 port 8080 allow { trusted; };
>> };
>>
>> where 'trusted' is an ACL defining what IPs should be allowed to access
>> the statistical data.  You can now make HTTP queries like so:
>>
>>     http://192.0.2.1:8080/
>>
>> which will get you an XML document containing many statistics about the
>> performance of your named instance.  If you ever decide to set up an
>> authoritative server, you might consider adding 'zone-statistics yes;'
>> in the options { } section, but this doesn't make any difference to
>> recursive-only resolvers.
>>
>>> bind has snmp mib for monitoring ?
>> Not to my knowledge.  It should be possible to write an agentx plugin
>> that translates from the XML data provided natively, but you'll have to
>> write your own MIBs since the standard one from RFC1612 seems to have
>> received little development since.  Indeed RFC3197
>> (https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3197.txt) tells a cautionary tale.
>>
>>     Cheers,
>>
>>     Matthew
>>
>




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