traceoptions (System Services DNS)

Syntax

Hierarchy Level

Description

CAUTION:

Enabling tracing can adversely impact scale and performance and may increase security risk. We strongly recommend using the trace, tracing, or traceoptions commands only under the guidance of a JTAC support engineer. After collecting the debug information, immediately disable tracing to minimize risk and restore normal system performance.

Defines tracing options for DNS services.

Options

category—Specifies the logging category. See Table 1 for the different logging categories and their descriptions.

file—Trace file information.

Table 1: Category Names
Category Name	Description
client	Processing of client requests
config	Configuration file parsing and processing
database	Messages relating to the databases
default	Categories for which there is no specific configuration
delegation-only	Delegation only
dispatch	Dispatching of incoming packets to the server
dnssec	DNSSEC and TSIG protocol processing
edns-disabled	Log query using plain DNS
general	General information
lame-servers	Lame servers
network	Network options
notify	NOTIFY protocol
queries	DNS query resolver
resolver	DNS resolution security
security	Approval and denial of requests
unmatched	Unable to determine the class for messages named
update	Dynamic updates
update-security	Approval and denial of update requests
xfer-in	Zone transfers that the server is receiving xfer-out
xfer-out	Zone transfers that the server is sending

Required Privilege Level

system—To view this statement in the configuration.

system-control—To add this statement to the configuration.

Release Information

Statement introduced in Junos OS Release 10.2.

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