At Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:12:48 -0400, Kevin Darcy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> 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. > > > > authoritative answers include nxdomain and nxrrset. > > successful answers include authoritative and non-authoritative > > answers. > > > And yet, the number of "successful" answers shown in the stats output > (previously posted) is significantly *lower* than the number of > "authoritative" answers. Color me confused as well. I said "authoritative answers include nxdomain and nxrrset". nxdomain and nxrrset are not successful answers. > >> I would think "responses sent" would be inclusive of > >> success/auth,non-auth,nxrrset, nxdomain, and recursion. Again, the math > >> doesnt add up. > >> > > > > responses include messages in response to queries, update requests, > > and notifies. > > > Hmmm... updates and notifies. I assume they're included in "requests > received" as well as "responses sent". Are they invisibly included in > any of the other categories? I'm not sure if I understand the question. But anyway, for example, there is a counter in the 'Name Server Statistics' section described as "update requests rejected", which is a subset of "requests received". --- JINMEI, Tatuya Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
