On 25/10/04 14:06 +0530, Keith Fernandez wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone point me to where I can get an explanation of the named > statistics on the internet. I couldnt find much. The reason being in my
See the BIND Administrators Reference Manual, Chapter 6, point 6.2.14.15. Quoting: The statistics dump begins with the line +++ Statistics Dump +++ (973798949), where the number in parentheses is a standard Unix-style timestamp, measured as seconds since January 1, 1970. > stats, the failuers are showing 8483727, is that normal. People are not > complaing about my DNS, and my Name server is running fine. Is it normal to > have so many failure's in their stats. <snip a bit> failure The number of queries which resulted in a failure response other than those above. I believe that the number of failures is not all that big. I suggest logging queries and seeing which queries fail. I would say that a large number of those would be missing reverse DNS, and RFC 1918 DNS, and Windows hosts trying to lookup wierd domains. Devdas Bhagat -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
