On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 12:44:21PM +0000, Steven Carr wrote: > On 25 January 2017 at 10:59, Tony Finch <d...@dotat.at> wrote: > > It's the address in memory of the data structure representing the client. > > It is mentioned in the CHANGES file (#4471) and in the release notes - see > > https://source.isc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=bind9.git;a=commitdiff;h=c4b7db49326be650fa95a7ede6e066bbe1268561 > > > > though the pointer field first turned up in > > https://source.isc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=bind9.git;a=commitdiff;h=a26a62cef2adba0520c5955d740fc75fa7f2c7f5 > > Question back to the BIND team... why? what is the purpose of having > this value exposed in query logs? what exactly is it adding? If it was > a debug log then I can understand the need to have the memory address > exposed, but for the "regular" user what is the use case?
When debugging problems, we look at logs. The pointer value is like a
tag or label that uniquely identifies the client object. Client objects
are recycled (reused) in named, and we look for their "identity" to
separate them from others.
Mukund
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