Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:50:04 -0400 From: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> To: kallender@completecomputing.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bind 9.3.0 startup failure Message-ID: <1095972603.5665.21.camel@zappa.Chelsea-Ct.Org>
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On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 12:12:15 -0500, kallender@completecomputing.com wrote:
> /etc/defaults/rc.d contains:
>
> #
> # named. It may be possible to run named in a sandbox, man security for
> # details.
> #
> named_rcng="NO" # XXX Temporary. Enable to use new rc
> # functionality in support of named. See
> # variables below.
> named_enable="NO" # Run named, the DNS server (or NO).
> named_program="/usr/sbin/named" # path to named, if you want a different one.
> named_flags="-u bind -g bind" # Flags for named
> named_pidfile="/var/run/named/pid" # Pid file
> named_chrootdir="" # Chroot directory (or "" not to auto-chroot
> it)
> named_chroot_autoupdate="YES" # Automatically install/update chrooted
> # components of named. See /etc/rc.d/named.
> named_symlink_enable="YES" # Symlink ${named_pidfile} and /var/run/ndc
> # to their chrooted counterparts.
>
>
> The /etc/rc.d/named script is unaltered from clean install of the OS.
But, the /etc/rc.d/named in 5.2.1 is designed to work with BIND8, not
BIND9. I'd expect problems trying to get it to work smoothly with BIND9
as-is, not least because some of the options to named have changed. For
example, "-g" in BIND8 sets the group under which named will run; under
BIND9 it instructs named to run in the foreground, not in the background
as a daemon, and to log everything to stderr. If you use the default
named_flags setting from /etc/defaults/rc.conf with BIND9 and start up
via /etc/rc.d/named, then named will likely get confused.
In short, I wouldn't rely on a script designed to drive BIND8 to work
flawlessly with BIND9. As someone else pointed out, you should really
be using rndc to control named and to observe its status, not
/etc/rc.d/named status, etc.
Note that 5.3 will ship with BIND9, so I'd expect the startup scripts to
be re-written to work accordingly.
Cheers,
Paul.
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