Migrating away from BIND9 to Route53 and would prefer not to use the named.stats file for monitoring activity during the migration period. As such, I checked the current named.conf and verified no statistics-channels entry exists, so no http web page for monitoring based on xml channel.
My question is: Because the previous sysadmins that deployed these BIND servers (RHEL 6) did not build it using ./configure --with-libxml2 based on my checks here:
[root@XXXXX /]# ldconfig -p | grep libxml2
libxml2.so.2 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib64/libxml2.so.2
[root@XXXXX /]# ldconfig -p | grep libxml2-dev
[root@XXXXX /]# named -v
BIND 9.8.2rc1-RedHat-9.8.2-0.68.rc1.el6_10.11
[root@XXXXX /]#
I see that libxml2 is on the system, however, it does not show up in the output of named -v as is documented in kb.isc.org:
If you are having trouble getting the statistics server to function, check the output of named -V to ensure that BIND was configured with libxml2, e.g.:
$ named -V
BIND 9.9.1-P2 built with '--prefix=/usr/local/bind-9.9.1-P2' '--with-libxml2'
Another observation is that libxml2-dev is not on the system, not explicitly required for all installs, just on some systems.
So, does anyone know if can I modify the BIND software build after initial configuration in order to get https monitoring of statistics (I.e.; Install the libxml2-dev library and supposedly get the libxml2-dev package loaded into the BIND configuration) or would I have to do a completely new build to enable this functionality?
