(Dark blue: incoming queries, light blue: outgoing/recursive lookups)

# Bind
Title[bind]: Bind Queries
Target[bind]: `/etc/mrtg/bind-stats.sh`
PageTop[bind]: <H1> Bind queries per minute on vm1 </H1>
Options[bind]: growright,pngdate,nobanner,gauge,nopercent,noinfo
MaxBytes[bind]: 50000
Ylegend[bind]: Queries/min
ShortLegend[bind]:  queries/min
LegendO[bind]: Incoming Bind queries per minute
LegendI[bind]: Outcoing Bind queries per minute
Legend2[bind]: Incoming Bind queries per minute
Legend1[bind]: Outcoing Bind queries per minute

#!/bin/bash
# Bind MRTG stats
# by Yeri Tiete (Tuinslak) - 10/02/2011
# https://yeri.be
#
# mrtg.cfg sample:
################################################################################
#	#
#	# Bind
#	#
#	Title[bind]: Bind Queries
#	Target[bind]: `/etc/mrtg/bind-stats.sh`
#	PageTop[bind]: <H1> Bind queries per minute on vm1 </H1>
#	Options[bind]: growright,pngdate,nobanner,gauge,nopercent,noinfo
#	MaxBytes[bind]: 50000
#	Ylegend[bind]: Queries/min
#	ShortLegend[bind]:  queries/min
#	LegendO[bind]: Incoming Bind queries per minute
#	LegendI[bind]: Outcoing Bind queries per minute
#	Legend2[bind]: Incoming Bind queries per minute
#	Legend1[bind]: Outcoing Bind queries per minute
################################################################################
file path of named.stats
FILE=/var/log/named.stats
TMPFILE=/tmp/__dnsstats.txt
how often does mrtg run? for me it’s every 10 mins
TIME=10
make file empty
echo /dev/null > /var/log/named.stats
generate file
/usr/sbin/rndc stats
save number of queries
INNOW=egrep "[^I]QUERY" $FILE | awk '{print $1 }'
OUTNOW=grep Outgoing $FILE -A 9 | sed '1,2d' | awk '{ SUM += $1} END { print SUM }'
check if tmp file exists and insert data in it if it doesnt
this prevents a peak
[ ! -e $TMPFILE ] && echo $INNOW > $TMPFILE && echo $OUTNOW >> $TMPFILE
get old data
INOLD=cat $TMPFILE | sed -n 1p
OUTOLD=cat $TMPFILE | sed -n 2p
overwrite old
echo $INNOW > $TMPFILE
echo $OUTNOW >> $TMPFILE
calculate (to get difference)
INDIFF=$[ $INNOW-$INOLD ]
OUTDIFF=$[ $OUTNOW-$OUTOLD ]
as mrtg runs */10 > divide by 10 to get per minute
INPERMIN=$[ $INDIFF/$TIME ]
OUTPERMIN=$[ $OUTDIFF/$TIME ]
print !
echo $OUTPERMIN
echo $INPERMIN
echo
echo

Be sure the named.stats file gives this kind of output:

# grep Outgoing /var/log/named.stats -A 9
++ Outgoing Queries ++
[View: default]
               64316 A
                   2 NS
                  22 SOA
                6945 PTR
                 892 MX
                1104 TXT
                3117 AAAA
                  22 SRV

… for the outgoing queries, and …

# grep QUERY /var/log/named.stats | awk '{print $1 }'
163143

for the incoming queries.

Don’t forget to

chmod +x bind-stats.sh

Live sample: vm1.rootspirit.com/mrtg/bind.html