Michael, I'm afraid your conclusion about not having read the documentation is false. Neither did we have any problems or errors running Bind 9 with our DNS setup. The logging statement was adapted according to the Bind 9 docs. Here is the current Bind 9.1.0 conf setup (which now works when category "default" is disabled): logging { channel "moderate_watch" { file "/var/log/named.log" versions 1 size 10m; severity info; print-time yes; print-category yes; print-severity yes; }; channel "debug_watch" { file "/var/log/named.log" versions 11 size 10m; severity debug; print-time yes; print-category yes; print-severity yes; }; ## category "default" { "moderate_watch"; }; category "config" { "debug_watch"; }; category "queries" { "moderate_watch"; }; category "general" { "moderate_watch"; }; category "xfer-in" { "debug_watch"; }; category "xfer-out" { "debug_watch"; }; category "database" { "debug_watch"; }; category "security" { "debug_watch"; }; category "notify" { "debug_watch"; }; category "network" { "debug_watch"; }; category "update" { "debug_watch"; }; category "resolver" { "debug_watch"; }; }; options { directory "/etc/dnsdata"; check-names master fail; check-names slave warn; allow-transfer { xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx; }; allow-query { any; }; recursion yes; lame-ttl 1800; pid-file "/var/run/named.pid"; statistics-file "/var/log/named.stats"; dump-file "/var/log/named_dump.db"; datasize default; stacksize default; coresize default; files unlimited; }; Philippe Wiede pw@megapublic.com Michael Roehrkasten wrote:
Hello,
Maybe they compiled Bind 9 themself and have had the time to read: /usr/local/src/bind-9.1.1/doc/misc/migration --- 1.3. Logging [...] Another difference is that the "logging" statement only takes effect after the entire named.conf file has been read. This means that when the server starts up, any messages about errors in the configuration file are always logged to the default destination (syslog) when the server first starts up, regardless of the contents of the "logging" statement. In BIND 8, the new logging configuration took effect immediately after the "logging" statement was read.
I compiled Bind 9.1.1 by myself and can´t see this truncating.
Maybe this above logging-difference is that what you call "bug"?
Cheers Michael -- If Windows is the solution, can we please have the problem back??