Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2000 00:28:12 +0200 (IST) From: Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: ports/22963: NEW PORT: net/pdnsd Message-ID: <200011192228.eAJMSC206546@alchemy.oven.org>
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>Number: 22963 >Category: ports >Synopsis: NEW PORT: net/pdnsd - cacheing only name server >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-ports >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Nov 19 14:30:01 PST 2000 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Roman Shterenzon >Release: FreeBSD 4.2-BETA i386 >Organization: >Environment: >Description: (This "beta" version contains all FreeBSD fixes I've sent the author) pdnsd is a proxy dns server with permanent caching (the cache contents are written to hard disk on exit) that is designed to cope with unreacheable or down dns servers (for example in dial-in networking). pdnsd can be used with applications that do dns lookups, eg on startup, and can't be configured to change that behaviour, to prevent the often minute-long hangs (or even crashes) that result from stalled dns queries. Some Netscape Navigator versions for Unix, for example, expose this behaviour. pdnsd is configurable via a file and supports run-time configuration using the program pdnsd-ctl that comes with pdnsd. This allows you to set the status flags of servers that pdnsd knows (to influence which servers pdnsd will query), and the addition, deletion and invalidation of DNS records in pdnsd's cache. Parallel name server queries are supported. This is a technique that allows querying several servers at the same time so that very slow or unavailable servers will not block the answer for one timeout interval. Since version 1.0.0, pdnsd has full IPv6 support. WWW: http://home.t-online.de/home/Moestl/ >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: # This is a shell archive. Save it in a file, remove anything before # this line, and then unpack it by entering "sh file". Note, it may # create directories; files and directories will be owned by you and # have default permissions. # # This archive contains: # # pdnsd # pdnsd/Makefile # pdnsd/distinfo # pdnsd/files # pdnsd/files/pdnsd.sh # pdnsd/pkg-descr # pdnsd/pkg-comment # pdnsd/pkg-plist # pdnsd/pkg-message # echo c - pdnsd mkdir -p pdnsd > /dev/null 2>&1 echo x - pdnsd/Makefile sed 's/^X//' >pdnsd/Makefile << 'END-of-pdnsd/Makefile' X# New ports collection makefile for: pdnsd X# Date Created: 27 Oct 2000 X# Whom: Roman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com> X# X# $FreeBSD$ X# X XPORTNAME= pdnsd XPORTVERSION= 1.1.0b2 XCATEGORIES= net XMASTER_SITES= http://home.t-online.de/home/Moestl/ X XMAINTAINER= roman@xpert.com X XGNU_CONFIGURE= yes XCONFIGURE_ARGS= --with-cachedir=/var/db/pdnsd X Xpost-install: X @${MKDIR} ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d X @${INSTALL} ${COPY} -m 744 -o root ${FILESDIR}/pdnsd.sh ${PREFIX}/etc/rc.d/pdnsd.sh X @${CAT} ${PKGMESSAGE} X X.include <bsd.port.mk> END-of-pdnsd/Makefile echo x - pdnsd/distinfo sed 's/^X//' >pdnsd/distinfo << 'END-of-pdnsd/distinfo' XMD5 (pdnsd-1.1.0b2.tar.gz) = a05d414d9a543e8d211b0806bcb89833 END-of-pdnsd/distinfo echo c - pdnsd/files mkdir -p pdnsd/files > /dev/null 2>&1 echo x - pdnsd/files/pdnsd.sh sed 's/^X//' >pdnsd/files/pdnsd.sh << 'END-of-pdnsd/files/pdnsd.sh' X#!/bin/sh X Xcase $1 in Xstart) X if [ -x /usr/local/sbin/pdnsd -a -f /usr/local/etc/pdnsd.conf ]; then X /usr/local/sbin/pdnsd -d X echo ' pdnsd' X fi X ;; Xstop) X killall pdnsd && echo -n ' pdnsd' X ;; X*) X echo "Usage: `basename $0` {start|stop}" >&2 X exit 64 X ;; Xesac X Xexit 0 END-of-pdnsd/files/pdnsd.sh echo x - pdnsd/pkg-descr sed 's/^X//' >pdnsd/pkg-descr << 'END-of-pdnsd/pkg-descr' Xpdnsd is a proxy dns server with permanent caching (the cache contents are Xwritten to hard disk on exit) that is designed to cope with unreacheable or Xdown dns servers (for example in dial-in networking). Xpdnsd can be used with applications that do dns lookups, eg on startup, and Xcan't be configured to change that behaviour, to prevent the often minute-long Xhangs (or even crashes) that result from stalled dns queries. Some Netscape XNavigator versions for Unix, for example, expose this behaviour. Xpdnsd is configurable via a file and supports run-time configuration using the Xprogram pdnsd-ctl that comes with pdnsd. This allows you to set the status Xflags of servers that pdnsd knows (to influence which servers pdnsd will Xquery), and the addition, deletion and invalidation of DNS records in pdnsd's Xcache. XParallel name server queries are supported. This is a technique that allows Xquerying several servers at the same time so that very slow or unavailable Xservers will not block the answer for one timeout interval. XSince version 1.0.0, pdnsd has full IPv6 support. X XWWW: http://home.t-online.de/home/Moestl/ X XRoman Shterenzon <roman@xpert.com> END-of-pdnsd/pkg-descr echo x - pdnsd/pkg-comment sed 's/^X//' >pdnsd/pkg-comment << 'END-of-pdnsd/pkg-comment' XCacheing (permanently, writes to disk on exit) DNS proxy-server END-of-pdnsd/pkg-comment echo x - pdnsd/pkg-plist sed 's/^X//' >pdnsd/pkg-plist << 'END-of-pdnsd/pkg-plist' Xetc/pdnsd.conf.sample Xetc/rc.d/pdnsd.sh Xsbin/pdnsd Xsbin/pdnsd-ctl X@unexec rm -rf /var/db/pdnsd END-of-pdnsd/pkg-plist echo x - pdnsd/pkg-message sed 's/^X//' >pdnsd/pkg-message << 'END-of-pdnsd/pkg-message' X XYou'll need to manually copy ${PREFIX}/etc/pdnsd.conf.sample to X${PREFIX}/etc/pdnsd.conf and modify it for your needs. X END-of-pdnsd/pkg-message exit >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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