Sample Logging Configuration for BIND9

BIND 9.x logging configuration *is a pain*. Although extremely powerful, it makes it unnecessarily difficult to just configure a simple logging scheme for a few messages.

Below you can find a clear configuration snippets to quicklyimplement logging configuration for BIND9. Logging configuration in BIND is, to me, quite obscure and unnecessarily complicated. This sample can be cut & pasted in named.conf (or named.conf.options in Debian / Ubuntu variants). The basis for this configuration was in [http://www.zytrax.com/books/dns/ch7/logging.html]

**NEW**: configuration snippet now hosted in a GitHub gist.

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Old configuration for reference purposes only. Not maintained.

logging{

channel simple_log {

file "/var/log/named/bind.log" versions 3 size 5m;

severity warning;

print-time yes;

print-severity yes;

print-category yes;

};

channel queries_log {

file "/var/log/named/queries.log" versions 3 size 5m;

severity debug;

print-time yes;

print-severity yes;

print-category yes;

};

category default{

simple_log;

};

category queries{

queries_log;

};

};

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