Search Again: QuickDNS logs From: ahclist Date: Thursday, April 12, 2001 Time: 7:11:51 am Chris & Co, Hey, I've a strange request here. I have a couple of our servers colo'ed, running QuickDNS 2.2.1 and Webstar 4.2 on these beasties. Our traffic is far higher than I would have expected from the logs we can monitor effectively (http, mail and a horribly inaccurate ftp log from webstar's plugin). Assuming the data from these combined logs is within 20% of the actual traffic, I still cannot account for nearly 80% of our traffic loads to the servers. The traffic is measured from the router logs at the colo -- which unfortunately cannot break down the traffic by port (oh, wouldn't that be sweet). Now, short of turning on the "thorough" setting in QDNS, is there an "guess-timate" of how much network traffic a DNS server will see over the course of the day? Is it relational or independent to the number of domains (primary, secondary, or both) to which it is authoritative? Any info would be wonderfully helpful in having us track this craziness. We monitor our servers via an http hit every five minutes. Our colo boxes are also monitored by the colo facility every 30 seconds, and a couple of our customers separately monitor their domains periodically -- all of this shows up in the http logs -- and accounts for a negligible quantity of traffic. Would it be beneficial to run thorough logs for 48 hours to gauge activity, or would I end up with 100 Mb of data I wouldn't be able to analyze without writing my own analyzer? (Is there a DNS log analyzer for your product akin to FunnelWeb or Summary?). Obviously, this is a financial issue for me otherwise I wouldn't be so curious. Thanks, paul vail after hours

Messages In This Thread: QuickDNS logs by ahclist on Apr 12, 2001 at 7:11:51 am Re: QuickDNS logs by Men & Mice Support on Apr 12, 2001 at 2:19:44 pm