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[Julian De Marchi <julian AT jdcomputers.com.au>]

On 26/04/12 05:08, Amrit Panesar wrote:
> We should have some graphs and numbers about the loads of out DNS servers.
>
> Essentially the numbers we should collect are: total queries, total opennic 
> queries, and total icann queries.
>
> we should have a script that reads through an hourly log from bind and 
> submits this data to a statistic php script.

In the past we have played with the idea of collecting stats. I had 
cacti setup to monitor my DNS logs. Brian wrote a script that works on a 
named pipe to change any IPs to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx in realtime[0]. Cacti 
was too heavy for the job however.

The interesting data is the OpenNIC TLDs queried. for this maybe a 
script can be created to query the bind log as a pre-hook with 
logrotate? The script could print stats to a flat file published via HTTP..

Just to state the obvious, any TX operator who chooses to turn on query 
logging for their dns server should run Brians script[0].

--julian

0 - http://wiki.opennic.glue/Tier2ServerConfig