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How To Increase PowerDNS's Log Verbosity?

Ehsan Dowlatshah
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Overview

For PowerDNS/PDNS, logging is enabled by default, however, it's usually set to only the minimal verbosity level so as not to affect PDNS's performance.

 

Procedure

If you wish to set PDNS logging to the maximum level of verbosity then you can add the following options to PDNS's configuration file (/etc/pdns/pdns.conf):  

log-dns-details
log-dns-queries
log-timestamp
loglevel=6
query-logging
webserver-loglevel=detailed

After adding these you need to restart PDNS with the following command to make sure that PDNS starts with the new configuration options in effect: 

/scripts/restartsrv_pdns

You can refer to the following link to see what each of these options mean: 

PowerDNS's Documentation: Authoritative Server Settings

Please bear in mind that, it's only recommended to keep these options for debugging purposes, as they can negatively affect PDNS's performance, so you need to remove these options after you are done debugging your issue. 

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