HP-UX IP Address and Client Management Administrator's Guide (October 2009)

• default_stderr
Sends messages of severity info and higher to standard error.
• null
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 each message category.
Table 1-3 describes the different types of message categories.
Table 1-3 Channel Message Categories
DescriptionMessage Category
High-level configuration file processing
config
Low-level configuration file processing
parser
Incoming queries
queries
Messages about lame servers
lame-servers
Messages about cname recordscname
Negative caching
ncache
Zone transfers that the server receives
xfer-in
Zone transfers that the server sends
xfer-out
Debugging information from the event system
eventlib
Dumps of packets received and sent
packet
The NOTIFY protocol
notify
Approved and unapproved requests
security
Internal consistency check failures
insist
Database operations
db
Operating system problems
os
Periodic maintenance events
maintenance
Zone loading messages
load
Messages arising from response checking
response-checks
Logs queries forced to NXDOMAIN as a result of the delegation-only zone,
or the delegation-only in a hint or stub zone declaration.
delegation-only
Dispatches incoming packets to the server modules, where the packets are
processed.
dispatch
Specifies messages for which named is unable to determine the class, or a
matching view is not available. A one-line summary is also logged to the
client category, and this category is sent to a file or standard error. By default,
the category is sent to the null channel.
unmatched
Indicates approval and denial of update requests.
update-security
Unclassified messages and categories that do not have a channel list explicitly
defined
default
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