BIND statistics

[Petr Špaček]

On 26. 08. 24 9:19, Havard Eidnes via bind-users wrote:
> Looking a bit further, I find in the XML output:
> 
>          <h2>Server Status</h2>
>          <table class="info">
>            <tr class="odd">
>              <th>Boot time:</th>
>              <td>
>                <xsl:value-of select="server/boot-time"/>
>              </td>
>            </tr>
> 
> So no actual value?  Is there a required post-processing step
> which is omitted?  I see xsl is mentioned both here and in the
> style definition at the start of the XML output.  I am however
> way too unfamiliar with the various XML-related tools to tell
> which piece is either missing or mal-functioning.
> 
> This particular name server instance is running in a chroot, so
> naturally no external xsl processor is available (but surely BIND
> doesn't do it that way)..
> 
> However, I don't find any "stray" references to XSLTPROC in the
> code, so in case that transformation is supposed to be done in
> some way, it must be done by some other method.  My libxml2 is
> version 2.12.8, and is accepted by configure.

If I was debugging this I would:
- compared strace output from working and non-working server
- compared PCAP from working and non-working server

Unfortunately you are the only person who reported this problem and I 
can't reproduce it either, so it's probably up to you to find needle in 
the haystack. Good luck!

-- 
Petr Špaček
Internet Systems Consortium