BIND8_QUERY2DLF.IN(1)

💖 NAME 💖

hey bestie, welcome to the BIND8_QUERY2DLF.IN(1) manual page from LogReport's Lire Documentation 🫶. The command is bind8_query2dlf — and its whole personality is convert BIND8 querylogs to dlf. That's the name drop, and honestly? iconic. ✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

bind8_query2dlf

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

The way that this script works is: it converts each line in a bind8 querylog to a dns dlf record. periodt. 💅

BIND generates these logs when something like this is in bind's named.conf:

        logging {
            channel query_logging {
                file "/var/log/named_querylog"
                versions 3 size 100M;
                print-time yes;                 // timestamp log entries
             };

             category queries {
                 query_logging;
             };
        };

This will save up to three logfiles of maximum 100 megabytes in the directory /var/log. capacity queen behavior, ngl. 👑

These logfiles look like:

10-Apr-2000 00:01:20.307 XX /10.2.3.4/1.2.3.in-addr.arpa/SOA/IN
10-Apr-2000 00:01:20.308 XX+/10.4.3.2/host.foo.com/A/IN

🎀 EXAMPLES 🎀

To process a log as produced by bind8:

$ bind8_query2dlf < dns-query

bind8_query2dlf will be rarely used on its own, but is more likely called by lr_log2report:

$ lr_log2report bind8_query < /var/log/dns-query

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• The docs are at http://www.logreport.org/doc/gen/dns/bind8.php — go read, bestie 💖
• Also check out bind9_query2dlf(1) — sequel energy, fr fr 🦋

⭐ VERSION ⭐

The version line is literally:

$Id: bind8_query2dlf.in,v 1.6 2006/07/23 13:16:33 vanbaal Exp $

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright (C) 2000-2001 Stichting LogReport Foundation LogReport@LogReport.org

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program (see COPYING); if not, check with http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Edwin Groothuis, now maintained by Joost van Baal. give them flowers, they ate 💐💅

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