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+# bind_rndc
+
+Module parses bind dump file to collect real-time performance metrics
+
+**Requirements:**
+ * Version of bind must be 9.6 +
+ * Netdata must have permissions to run `rndc stats`
+
+It produces:
+
+1. **Name server statistics**
+ * requests
+ * responses
+ * success
+ * auth_answer
+ * nonauth_answer
+ * nxrrset
+ * failure
+ * nxdomain
+ * recursion
+ * duplicate
+ * rejections
+
+2. **Incoming queries**
+ * RESERVED0
+ * A
+ * NS
+ * CNAME
+ * SOA
+ * PTR
+ * MX
+ * TXT
+ * X25
+ * AAAA
+ * SRV
+ * NAPTR
+ * A6
+ * DS
+ * RSIG
+ * DNSKEY
+ * SPF
+ * ANY
+ * DLV
+
+3. **Outgoing queries**
+ * Same as Incoming queries
+
+
+### configuration
+
+Sample:
+
+```yaml
+local:
+  named_stats_path       : '/var/log/bind/named.stats'
+```
+
+If no configuration is given, module will attempt to read named.stats file  at `/var/log/bind/named.stats`
+
+---