Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 08:56:06 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: jacks@sage-american.com Cc: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>, Anthony Atkielski <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Finding out what named is doing Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0112170854060.24873-100000@xena.gsicomp.on.ca> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20011217075748.0157afe0@mail.sage-american.com>
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From the 'named' man page:
SIGILL Dumps statistics data into named.stats if the server is com-
piled with -DSTATS. Statistics data is appended to the file.
So just send your named process a SIGILL (kill -4 `cat
/var/run/named.pid`) and stats will be appended to the stats file.
--
Matthew Emmerton || matt@gsicomp.on.ca
GSI Computer Services || http://www.gsicomp.on.ca
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 jacks@sage-american.com wrote:
> I had this same question and had already looked up "ndc" manpage, but there
> is nothing seen there to do an output of stats that I can see. It does lead
> to "named" manpage which has reference to this:
> "/var/tmp/named.stats (file: _PATH_STATS) nameserver statistics data"
>
> However, it is a little cryptic about how that stats file is initiated.
>
> At 05:07 PM 12.11.2001 +1100, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> >On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 06:57:32AM +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote:
> >> Is there a simple way to see what named has cached, and other statistics on
> >> what it is doing? I'm just trying to make sure that it really is
> looking up
> >> domain names for the two machines on my LAN and caching results.
> >
> >You can do it via "ndc", it's the "name daemon control program".
> >See the man-page of ndc for it.
> >
> >Edwin
> >
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> Best regards,
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>
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