[lug] MRTG and LINUX DNS

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 05:02:44AM -0000, Stephen G. Smith wrote:
>Well, I use it to monitor everything from router interface traffic
>to cpu utilization, disk space,  and ram usage..
>I thought it would be nice to watch the DNS traffic with a graph
>for a few weeks..

Probably the easiest way would be to set up an IP packet filter to log
port 53/udp packets, then have something that watches the logs and
counts the number of those in a 5-minute period.  Then just write it to
a file for MRTG to read.

Sean
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