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named.conf(4) named.conf(4)
(BIND 9.3)
category "default" { "default_syslog"; "default_debug"; };
For example, if you want to log security events to a file and also want to keep the default logging
behavior, you need to specify the following in the
logging statement:
channel "my_security_channel" {
file "my_security_file";
severity info;
};
category "security" {
"my_security_channel";
"default_syslog";
"default_debug";
};
To discard all messages in a category, specify the
null channel, as in the following:
category "xfer-out" { "null"; };
category "notify" { "null"; };
The following are the available categories and brief descriptions of the types of log information they con-
tain. More categories may be added in future BIND releases.
default Defines the logging options for categories where no specific configuration has been
defined.
general The catch-all. All unclassified categories belong to this category.
client Processing of client requests
config Configuration file parsing and processing.
database Messages relating to the databases used internally by the name server to store zone and
cache data.
delegation-only
Logs queries that have have been forced to NXDOMAIN as the result of a
delegation-only zone or a
delegation-only in a hint or stub zone declara-
tion.
dispatch Dispatching of incoming packets to the server modules where they are to be processed.
dnssec DNSSEC and TSIG protocol processing.
lame-servers
Lame servers are misconfigurations in remote servers, discovered by BIND 9 when trying
to query those servers during resolution.
network Network operations.
notify The NOTIFY protocol.
queries Enable query logging.
resolver DNS resolution, such as recursive lookups performed on behalf of clients by a caching
name server.
security Approval and denial of requests.
unmatched Messages that named was unable to determine the class of or for which there was no
matching view. A one-line summary is also logged to the client category. This
category is best sent to a file or stderr; by default, it is sent to the null channel.
update Dynamic updates
update-security
Approval and denial of update requests.
xfer-in Zone transfers the server is receiving.
xfer-out Zone transfers the server is sending.
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