[nsd-users] Basic Logging Support Via Syslog

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Tue Sep 1 22:43:38 UTC 2009


On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 12:13:24AM +0200, Greg Holmberg wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 09:19:15AM +0200, W.C.A. Wijngaards wrote:
> > 
> > ... is [tcpdump] not good enough for that purpose [logging NXDOMAINs]?
> > 
> 
> If the interface is left in promiscuous mode continuously, there
> are a few things to be aware of.

tcpdump can be used without promiscuous mode though.

Back to the original topic, if logging was desirable, using shared
memory and a separate gathering process is likely a much better idea.

Joerg



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