Bind Queries log file format

[Steven Carr]

On 25 January 2017 at 10:59, Tony Finch <dot at dotat.at> wrote:
> It's the address in memory of the data structure representing the client.
> It is mentioned in the CHANGES file (#4471) and in the release notes - see
> https://source.isc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=bind9.git;a=commitdiff;h=c4b7db49326be650fa95a7ede6e066bbe1268561
>
> though the pointer field first turned up in
> https://source.isc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=bind9.git;a=commitdiff;h=a26a62cef2adba0520c5955d740fc75fa7f2c7f5

Question back to the BIND team... why? what is the purpose of having
this value exposed in query logs? what exactly is it adding? If it was
a debug log then I can understand the need to have the memory address
exposed, but for the "regular" user what is the use case?