You can use dig to get a sample of the response time and rndc stats to get query and nameserver statistics.
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Romskie L <rslara...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Karl, > > Have you considered using dig? > > -Romskie > > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Karl Auer <ka...@biplane.com.au> wrote: >> We have some nameservers :-) that are used by quite a few thousands of >> people. Every now and then someone comes to us and complains that the >> DNS is responding slowly. Sometimes they are right, and we find the >> problem and fix it. But most of the time everything runs fine, and the >> DNS is not, in fact, responding slowly when that someone comes to >> complain. It turns out to be their PC, or a local network issue, or >> whatever. >> >> So we have a homegrown system in place that watches the traffic to and >> from the nameservers, matches queries to answers, ignores everything >> else, and notes how long it was between the question going past and the >> answer going past in the opposite direction. It writes summarised >> information second by second into a database so we can see exactly when >> problems with response times happen, how long they happen for, and how >> bad they are when they happen. >> >> Our system has two faults (well, two that we are actually concerned >> about): It only watches UDP, and it can't deal with fragmented packets. >> >> So I was wondering if there is a better solution out there? >> >> Regards, K. >> >> -- >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) +61-2-64957160 (h) >> http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer/ +61-428-957160 (mob) >> >> GPG fingerprint: DA41 51B1 1481 16E1 F7E2 B2E9 3007 14ED 5736 F687 >> Old fingerprint: B386 7819 B227 2961 8301 C5A9 2EBC 754B CD97 0156 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to >> unsubscribe from this list >> >> bind-users mailing list >> bind-users@lists.isc.org >> https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users >> > _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
