Add the following logging section in your named.conf, and restart bind. Then check that logs are being created in /etc/namedb/log: options { ... }; logging { // Channels channel transfers { file "log/transfers" versions 3 size 10M; print-time yes; }; channel notify { file "log/notify" versions 3 size 10M; print-time yes; }; channel dnssec { file "log/dnssec" versions 3 size 10M; print-time yes; }; channel query { file "log/query" versions 5 size 10M; print-time yes; }; channel general { file "log/general" versions 3 size 10M; print-time yes; }; // Categories category xfer-out { transfers; }; category xfer-in { transfers; }; category notify { notify; }; category lame-servers { general; }; category config { general; }; category default { general; }; category security{ general; }; // category queries { query }; }; zone "..." { ... };