[collectd] bind plugin failing

Bruno Prémont bonbons at linux-vserver.org
Mon Sep 29 08:34:36 CEST 2014


On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 14:26:00 -0400 Chip Marshall wrote:
> I'm having some trouble with the bind plugin, and I could use
> some guidance in tracking down what the problem is. At the
> moment, I'm just getting "read-function of plugin `bind' failed."
> in the log, followed by various "Will suspend it for" times.
> 
> The plugin config:
> 
> <Plugin "bind">
>   URL "http://127.0.0.1:8053/"
>   ParseTime       false
>   OpCodes         true
>   QTypes          true
> 
>   ServerStats     true
>   ZoneMaintStats  true
>   ResolverStats   false
>   MemoryStats     true
> </Plugin>
> 
> I can do a `curl http://127.0.0.1:8053/` and get a bunch of XML
> output, so I think the BIND side of things is working.
> 
> I'm using collectd 5.4.1 on FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE with BIND 9.10.1.

Could you share one such XML output? Possibly Bind changed version
tag of XML data once again, with potential structure changes.

Bruno



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