Find out how many DNS Queries/month via WHM or SSH?
As AndyN says, the answer here is:
sudo rndc stats
When you run this (if configured in the named.conf
files) Bind will dump out statistical information to a configured statistics file.
You need to check the /etc/bind/named.conf.* files for the following line:
[ statistics-file "path_name"; ]
(On Ubuntu it's named.conf.options
and the path is /var/run/named/named.stats
)
From your question it seems that you need to know an approximate number of DNS queries for scaling purposes. You should be able to get a rough idea of this from the file.
Run sudo rndc stats
Then after a suitable time (a few hours? a few days?) run it again.
In your statistics file you'll see the following (this is from my own home DNS server - which is both a caching resolver and authoritative).
Apologies for the large amount of info... The number in the first line is in "Epoch time" (seconds since 1970-1-1 00:00 UTC). Using this you can work out the difference in time from one "rndc stats" to the next and also the different number of requests (you'll want to be looking at Incoming "QUERY" and Outgoing totals (A + NS + SOA + PTR + TXT + AAAA).
+++ Statistics Dump +++ (1275999954)
++ Incoming Requests ++
432 QUERY
++ Incoming Queries ++
306 A
2 NS
4 SOA
45 PTR
5 TXT
70 AAAA
++ Outgoing Queries ++
[View: default]
523 A
4 NS
4 SOA
42 PTR
9 TXT
330 AAAA
[View: _bind]
++ Name Server Statistics ++
432 IPv4 requests received
431 responses sent
259 queries resulted in successful answer
96 queries resulted in authoritative answer
335 queries resulted in non authoritative answer
39 queries resulted in nxrrset
133 queries resulted in NXDOMAIN
238 queries caused recursion
1 duplicate queries received
++ Zone Maintenance Statistics ++
++ Resolver Statistics ++
[Common]
[View: default]
849 IPv4 queries sent
63 IPv6 queries sent
841 IPv4 responses received
67 NXDOMAIN received
2 FORMERR received
2 EDNS(0) query failures
123 query retries
5 query timeouts
118 IPv4 NS address fetches
118 IPv6 NS address fetches
1 IPv4 NS address fetch failed
90 IPv6 NS address fetch failed
13 queries with RTT < 10ms
549 queries with RTT 10-100ms
279 queries with RTT 100-500ms
[View: _bind]
++ Cache DB RRsets ++
[View: default]
366 A
87 NS
9 CNAME
1 PTR
97 AAAA
20 RRSIG
15 NSEC
4 !AAAA
1 NXDOMAIN
[View: _bind]
++ Socket I/O Statistics ++
852 UDP/IPv4 sockets opened
64 UDP/IPv6 sockets opened
3 TCP/IPv4 sockets opened
2 TCP/IPv6 sockets opened
850 UDP/IPv4 sockets closed
63 UDP/IPv6 sockets closed
123 TCP/IPv4 sockets closed
1 UDP/IPv4 socket bind failures
63 UDP/IPv6 socket connect failures
849 UDP/IPv4 connections established
124 TCP/IPv4 connections accepted
63 UDP/IPv6 send errors
3 UDP/IPv4 recv errors
++ Per Zone Query Statistics ++
--- Statistics Dump --- (1275999954)
The command "rndc stats" should work with recent versions of BIND dns.
According to DistroWatch, CentOS 5.5 shipped with Bind 9.3.4-P1. OP can verify this from the command line with "rpm -qa | grep bind".
AndyN's "rndc stats" (if you happen to run BIND) and kaerast's "dnstop" are good advices. I add DSC which is a very comprehensive package for DNS stats.