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From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To: BSD Freak <bsd-freak@mbox.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Monitoring a BIND 8 server
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On Mon, Oct 15, 2001 at 08:32:18PM +1000, BSD Freak wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am running a pair of FreeBSD 4.3 / BIND 8 DNS servers and I want to
> monitor in real time the requests being made/satisfied. Kind of the way
> you can "tail -f" a proxy/web server log file .... Anyone know how to do
> this?

This is for working for me:
logging {
        channel query_logging {
		file "/home/edwin/dns/qlog"
		versions 3 size 100M;
		print-time yes;
	};
	category queries {
		query_logging;
	};
};

And it gives such an output:
16-Oct-2001 07:50:00.993 XX+/127.0.0.1/topaz.mdcc.cx/A/IN
16-Oct-2001 07:50:01.019 XX+/127.0.0.1/topaz.mdcc.cx/AAAA/IN
16-Oct-2001 07:50:01.021 XX+/127.0.0.1/topaz.mdcc.cx/A/IN
16-Oct-2001 07:50:34.359 XX+/127.0.0.1/cgi.omroep.nl/A/IN
16-Oct-2001 07:50:48.208 XX+/127.0.0.1/livestreams.omroep.nl/A/IN

Edwin

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