bind8 - possible other "ndc status" output?

[Andrew Brown]

>the existing "ndc status" display was a proof of concept.  based on the
>global state which is known while the event engine is running, what else
>would people like to see?

any or all of these?

 * number of zones "loaded" as opposed to (or in addition to)
   "allocated"...maybe number of zones in each class?
 * the server's pid (the ndc shell script told us this, and with this
   i can easily get VSZ and RSS, which status no longer reports)
 * snapshots of stuff like NSTATS and XSTATS
 * server's start time and/or current run time (aka how long has it
   been running?)
 * for xfers...inbound vs. outbound counts (running and deferred)

i realize most of this is in the log file, but it would be nice to get
all of it in one piece.

>note that the last line of the display is nonsequitur, since whenever it
>*is* loading its configuration, the event engine is not running, and it
>won't be answering NDC *at all*.

heh.  i was wondering about that...thought perhaps you'd gone a little
crazy and had it pause in between each line (or clause) in the config
file to check if anything else needed to be done.

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