Need to improve named performance

Ed LaFrance edl at connexinternet.com
Mon Nov 12 15:58:49 UTC 2012


Hello Alan -

Currently I'm not using query logging, it's not in my options at all. 
Are you saying that named logging by syslog into /var/log/messages is 
controlled by named.conf? Seems unlikely, I'd think it would be a 
function of syslog.conf. I'm trying to learn more about it but I'm 
swamped this am, just thought I'd post here to see if anyone knows a 
quick way to exclude named from the syslog completely.

Ed

On 11/12/2012 7:34 AM, Alan Clegg wrote:
>
> On Nov 12, 2012, at 10:23 AM, Ed LaFrance<edl at connexinternet.com>  wrote:
>
>> I've been corresponding with several people on this issue but no one had questioned that when I pointed it out.
>
> I don't think I'd seen the logging stanza, but yes, logging to syslog is a bad thing, and logging queries to syslog is even worse.  Having had someone pick this out of an strace output is indeed awesome.
>
>> I really don't need this kind of logging in the messages log. I can turn on query logging in the named.conf if I need more detail on named. I think the simplest thing would just be to have an exclusion in the syslog config for named. I confess some general ignorance, so perhaps you know the directive for that?
>
> To reduce the load on named in general, just turn off query logging in the named.conf, or, you can leave the stanza in and put a "querylog no;" in your options stanza so that it is not started when named starts (I'm not sure what version introduced the querylog option, so you may need to test this.
>
> AlanC

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