[Dnsmasq-discuss] logging dns queries

richardvoigt at gmail.com richardvoigt at gmail.com
Fri Mar 18 18:21:43 GMT 2011


On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Helmut Hullen <Hullen at t-online.de> wrote:
> Hallo, Matthias,
>
> Du meintest am 18.03.11:
>
>>>>> Can I tell "dnsmasq" too to log the queries?
>
>>>> Find manual. Read manual. Look for --log-queries.
>
>>> It works - thank you!
>>> But it's not as comfortable as the ISC-bind form: there I can define
>>> a special log file only for named queries.
>
>> If you want BIND, use BIND. It's as simple as that. :-)
>
> But I don't want BIND. It's a monster.
>
>> I believe that Simon's documentation is complete, in other words, all
>> features are documented in the manual page.
>
> You believe wrong.
>
> Some days ago I was told some features around "dhcp-script" which I
> hadn't found in the documentation.
>
> And therefore I hope that the programmers know a simple but not yet
> documented way for separate log files too.

The syslog documentation is fairly complete.  What you're looking for
is not in the dnsmasq man page because it isn't provided by dnsmasq,
it's provided by your syslog daemon, and therefore you should look
there for documentation as well.

>
> Viele Gruesse!
> Helmut
>
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