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Grep! I’m in a bind

27th May 2016 By Karl Wright Leave a Comment

Use tail and grep to query your Bind server
‘Grep’ always reminds me of a made-up swear word from a comic book, like Judge Dredd’s ‘drokk‘!

Occasionally, I want to check and see what the kids are up to online. I don’t have a content filter set up yet (it’s on the to-do list) but we run Bind as a local-network domain name server (DNS). To see what someone’s doing, I just use the tail and grep utilities to view Bind’s log files.

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