[gentoo-user] bind: no logging...?

[gentoo-user] bind: no logging...?

[Jarry]

Hi,

I'm testing my chrooted bind/nameserver with dig/nslookup,
but I think I screwed up its configuration somehow, because
I'm not getting expected answers.

So I tried to search logs, but to my surprise, it seems to me
that bind does not make any logs. Or at least I can not find
anything, just starting and loading zone-files (/var/log/syslog)
but after that no info about clients requesting dn/ip-resolving...

Does bind write logs about its activities somewhere?
Should it be in /var/log, or /chroot/dns/var/log?

Jarry

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Re: [gentoo-user] bind: no logging...?

[kashani]

Jarry wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm testing my chrooted bind/nameserver with dig/nslookup,
> but I think I screwed up its configuration somehow, because
> I'm not getting expected answers.
> 
> So I tried to search logs, but to my surprise, it seems to me
> that bind does not make any logs. Or at least I can not find
> anything, just starting and loading zone-files (/var/log/syslog)
> but after that no info about clients requesting dn/ip-resolving...
> 
> Does bind write logs about its activities somewhere?
> Should it be in /var/log, or /chroot/dns/var/log?

Bind is like Apache in that it does its own logging. Here's my config 
with all named logs split out into their own files. Just change the 
paths to something local in your chroot.

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_a_DNS_Server_with_BIND#Logging_conf

kashani
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Re: [gentoo-user] bind: no logging...?

[Jarry]

kashani wrote:

>> Does bind write logs about its activities somewhere?
>> Should it be in /var/log, or /chroot/dns/var/log?
> 
> Bind is like Apache in that it does its own logging. Here's my config 
> with all named logs split out into their own files. Just change the 
> paths to something local in your chroot.
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_a_DNS_Server_with_BIND#Logging_conf

Thanks for pointing me to the right place.
So many log-files? I hope I can reduce it somehow...
But I am surprised that bind does not do logging
"right of the box", like apache...

Jarry

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Re: [gentoo-user] bind: no logging...?

[kashani]

Jarry wrote:
> kashani wrote:
> 
>>> Does bind write logs about its activities somewhere?
>>> Should it be in /var/log, or /chroot/dns/var/log?
>>
>> Bind is like Apache in that it does its own logging. Here's my config 
>> with all named logs split out into their own files. Just change the 
>> paths to something local in your chroot.
>> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_a_DNS_Server_with_BIND#Logging_conf
> 
> Thanks for pointing me to the right place.
> So many log-files? I hope I can reduce it somehow...
> But I am surprised that bind does not do logging
> "right of the box", like apache...

	In an ISP setting having the logs broken out like that made it easier 
to troubleshoot things. Also made it easier to estimate the number of 
lookups per second or tail the general.log for errors without having to 
see all the queries or lame servers.

	Bind may log right out of the box, but it would depend on the 
configuration in your named.conf. I've been using my confs for a few 
years and haven't looked at the Gentoo default lately.

kashani
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