disabling lame server logging

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Tue Feb 26 18:38:34 UTC 2013


On 02/26/2013 01:19 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
> You want to set up your resolver on your mail server to forward to 
> your main resolver, using the forward only option. This will allow 
> your mail server resolver to benefit from the cache already populated 
> on your main resolver, while still maintaining the value of caching 
> the answers itself locally.

What I have done.

> Your goal of reducing the number of error messages in your main 
> resolver's logs so that you can better chase down real problems is a 
> good one. However you eventually reach a point of diminishing return 
> where further reducing the errors ends up in you missing actual new 
> problems.

Pretty quite.  For now.  I would like a scalpel for lame logging, but 
probably would not discover any actionable data.

>
> Or, put another way, slogging through noisy logs is part of the job, 
> given the horrific state of most DNS "out there." Welcome to the club.

Well I am working at getting off the 'horrific state' list.




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