[bind10-dev] Statistics via DNS? (Crazy "I'm not in Beijing" idea)

[Roy Arends]

Shane, I love it, go for it.

We could even do reverse map ASN.1 SNMP over DNS. I am not kidding. as SNMP ASN.1 is a fairly straightforward key-value pair hierarchically structured database. Okay, I'm thinking out loud here, and SNMP/ASN.1 might be overkill, but I am all for it. It would really help monitoring and debugging.

Roy


On Apr 19, 2010, at 1:01 PM, Shane Kerr wrote:

> All,
> 
> I was checking to see that my BIND 10 server is still running properly.
> It seems to be, then I was curious about the uptime.
> 
> Anyway, I was thinking it would be cool to be able to get BIND 10
> statistics via DNS itself. Something like:
> 
> $ dig @ns1.example.org -t txt -c ch uptime.stats.bind
>   .
>   .
>   .
> uptime.stats.bind.	0	CH	TXT	"30d 05:31:17"
> 
> And perhaps:
> 
> $ dig @ns1.example.org -t txt -c ch stats.bind
> queries.stats.bind.	0	CH	TXT	"75103"
> udp.queries.stats.bind.	0	CH	TXT	"75047"
> tcp.queries.stats.bind	0	CH	TXT	"56"
>   .
>   .
>   .
> 
> You get the idea.
> 
> I realize this probably isn't a new idea, but since we have flexibility
> with BIND 10, maybe this might be fun to have.
> 
> BTW, it turns out that as of today I've been using the same BIND 10
> process for 1 month... which makes sense since we released it a month
> ago. :)
> 
> --
> Shane
> 
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