Bind8 Logging problems
On my vds (virtual dedicated server) I run Bind8 due to issues getting Bind9 to run properly
I’ve been trying to debug a problem with the zone transfer of a certain domain (turns out I had input the wrong secondary nameserver). I wanted get Bind8 to log basically everything.. so I stuck in a custom “logging {}” section in named.local.options but for some reason, the file was never created.
Unfortunately, it took me quite a while to realise that there was already a logging section in named.conf and that my section was being read but ignored (would give syntax errors if they existed in the new section but wouldn’t make my damned log file!)
I merged the two logging sections together in named.conf and it actually worked, the file being created in /var/cache/bind/