Re: named: suddenly "NSTATS" messages in syslog?

["Ralf G. R. Bergs" <rabe@RWTH-Aachen.DE>]

On Thu, 08 Mar 2001 14:40:23 -0300 (BRT), Carlos Laviola wrote:

>>>> I suddenly have messages like the following in my syslog:
>>>> 
>>>>     named[698]: NSTATS 984060633 983967034 A=6048 SOA=257 PTR=14826 MX=51
>>>
>>>there is nothing wrong, named is just reporting it's statistics. no need
>>>to panic.
>> 
>> Well, yes, thought so, BUT why did it suddenly start? I mean I'm absolutely
>> sure 
>> I didn't tweak the config file, I just rebooted the box?!
>
>AFAIK, this is named's normal behaviour. When you boot the box it dumps this
>statistics (also known as random crap).

But it does this once EVERY HOUR?!

Any other ideas?!

I mean I can easily filter it with logcheck, but I'm wondering why this 
suddenly appears in syslog?!

Thanks,

Ralf


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