BIND 8.1.2 Release Notes

New and Changed Features
New Features
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• default_syslog
This channel sends messages to the daemon facility at severity info
and higher (info is a predefined severity level that allows messages
of its severity level or higher to be logged to the channel).
• default_debug
This channel sends messages to the file named.run and tracks the
daemon’s current dynamic debug level.
• default_stderr
This channel sends messages of severity info and higher to
standard error.
• null
This channel discards everything it receives.
Message Categories
You can assign a list of channels to each message category, and send
messages to all the channels from the category.
Table 1-1 lists and describes different types of message categories.
Table 1-1 Message Categories
Message
Category
Description
config High-level configuration file processing
parser Low-level configuration processing
queries Incoming queries
lame-servers Messages about lame-servers
cname Messages about cname records
ncache Negative caching
xfer-in Zone transfers the server receives
xfer-out Zone transfers the server sends
eventlib Debugging information from the event system