README

bind_xml/README.md

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+## Overview
 
+Provides statistics (memory use, query counts) using the xml
+statistics from BIND versions >= 9.5.  Parsing of the xml is done
+using [pybindxml](https://github.com/jforman/pybindxml).
 
-rhel6: libxml2-devel libxslt-devel
+BIND configuration to enable looks something like:
+
+    statistics-channels {
+        inet 127.0.0.1 port 8053 allow {127.0.0.1;};
+    };
+
+## System Dependencies
+
+yum-rhel6: libxml2-devel libxslt-devel
 
 pip: pybindxml beautifulsoup4 lxml