Infoblox does support SYSLOG. However, since this is a fairly heavy weight protocol, it does not scale well for logging of every single DNS query, which could mean multiple hundreds of thousands messages per second.
Therefore, Infoblox came up with a new mechanism that scales better by using a highly optimized data collection mechanism in the Infoblox Reporting Forwarder. The forwarder sends that data to an Infoblox appliance, acting in an indexer role, that knows how to interpret the data and run predetermined reports.
The reporting solution can interact with the rest of the Infoblox Grid and access information found in DHCP to display in the DNS Firewall report, or access information found through network discovery in the Infoblox Network Insight appliance. You can also run searches on reporting data and export the results in CSV. And the reporting solution allows forwarding of DNS query/response data to an external destination using FTP/SCP, for example, to correlate the DNS query (or response) with other data for analytics.
Hope that helps.
-- Mike Langberg, Infoblox
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