[Pdns-users] Fwd: ISSUE MIGRATION DNS FROM POWERDNS TO CLOUD

seddik alaoui ismaili seddikalaouiismaili at gmail.com
Wed Sep 11 09:06:32 UTC 2019


Many thanks dude ,
I agree, simply with tcpdum i will trace the queries .
Enabling the trace or login-queries can severely impact performance .

I will keep you informed

Regards
Seddik


Le mer. 11 sept. 2019 à 10:57, Brian Candler <b.candler at pobox.com> a écrit :
>
> On 11/09/2019 09:42, seddik alaoui ismaili wrote:
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> I'd like to track domain requests on both NS, just to see if queries still arrive on both DNS servers.
> An idea about a tool ? I've seen rec_control can do it, except there's not enough documentation on it, have you already installed it?
>
> rec_control is for the powerdns recursor, but you're talking about powerdns authoritative.
>
> There is the log_all_queries option, but I would rather not run that on a production server.
>
> Therefore, if your DNS traffic is not too high, I would be inclined to use either packetbeat or just tcpdump/wireshark to capture and decode the DNS traffic - then grep it for what you're looking for.  It's the least invasive way of doing it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Brian.
>
> P.S. If you wanted to build a scalable, permanent way of doing this then you could look at dnsdist with protobuf or dnstap export - but I think that's overkill here.


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