From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 21 18:17:26 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF55D16A400 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:17:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from ms-smtp-03.rdc-kc.rr.com (ms-smtp-03.rdc-kc.rr.com [24.94.166.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF5FF13C455 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:17:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from corinth.polands.org (CPE-75-87-219-217.new.res.rr.com [75.87.219.217]) by ms-smtp-03.rdc-kc.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2LIHNOn025485 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:17:24 -0500 (CDT) Received: from email.polands.org (ammon.polands.org [172.16.1.7]) by corinth.polands.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l2LIHNXA031480 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:17:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from 69.129.174.18 (proxying for 192.168.1.13) (SquirrelMail authenticated user djp) by email.polands.org with HTTP; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:17:23 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <56280.69.129.174.18.1174501043.squirrel@email.polands.org> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:17:23 -0500 (CDT) From: "Doug Poland" To: questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.4/2892/Wed Mar 21 04:40:09 2007 on corinth.polands.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Subject: OT: how to read BIND's debug file (named.run) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 18:17:27 -0000 Hello, I realize this is not FreeBSD specific, other than the fact that I'm running BIND on 1/2 dozen FreeBSD 6.2 servers. But I'd like to know if someone knows of a resource to help me interpret what I'm seeing in BIND's debug output file. For example: # rndc trace # rndc querylog # tail /var/named/etc/named/named.run client 192.168.1.21#65193: query: example.com IN AAAA + client 192.168.1.21#53443: query: example.com IN A + client 192.168.1.21#50255: query: example.com IN MX + client 192.168.1.7#59639: query: hostname.example.com IN A + client 192.168.1.7#61740: query: hostname.example.com IN AAAA + client 192.168.1.7#56778: query: hostname.example.com IN A + client 192.168.1.7#64564: query: hostname.example.com IN AAAA + client 192.168.1.19#32776: query: ns2.example.com IN AAAA - client 192.168.1.19#32776: query: ns1.example.com IN AAAA - client 192.168.1.13#39132: query: example.org IN MX -E client 192.168.1.11#32783: query: www.example.com IN A - I trimmed out date/time stamp and it's obvious what the client, IP#port, query: name are for. Also, I get what the: IN A MX SOA PTR flags are. But what do the following characters mean? - + AAAA - AAAA + -E I googled and did a little experimenting with dig but sure would be nice if there's a document out there that describes all these. -- Regards, Doug