I'm hoping someone can help as I am completely confused and the BIND ARM doesnt answer my questions. For one it doesnt explain what categories are inclusive of others, if any, which I would think some are. For example:
I would think that authoritative answers are included in succesful answers...logical but clearly cant be if you look at the numbers below. I would think "responses sent" would be inclusive of success/auth,non-auth,nxrrset, nxdomain, and recursion. Again, the math doesnt add up. I would expect things like IPv4 rcvd and EDNS rcvd/snt to be spread out across all of the other categories. When it comes down to it, I really just want to find out how many authoritative requests each of my nameservers are handling per second or minute or hour. ++ Name Server Statistics ++ 29632304 IPv4 requests received 15686952 requests with EDNS(0) received 26043352 auth queries rejected 235235 recursive queries rejected 97 update requests rejected 29394860 responses sent 15686952 responses with EDNS(0) sent 1886089 queries resulted in successful answer 3055142 queries resulted in authoritative answer 913 queries resulted in non authoritative answer 763935 queries resulted in nxrrset 406031 queries resulted in NXDOMAIN 120 queries caused recursion 26100395 other query failures Also, it doesnt really explain what qualifies to fall into each category, only a reiteration of what the category is. For example what qualifies as "other query failures"? What differentiates a NXRRSET from an NXDOMAIN? Is there a LEG (Layman Explanation Guide) out there that might assume one doesnt know this and go into a little more depth on some of the definitions? hahahahaha....but seriously? Help Please? TIA, Chris -- ************************** Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. Philip K. Dick (1928 - 1982), Valis The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Friedrich Nietzsche