On 2020/07/15 02:32, ken.hendrick...@l3harris.com wrote: > > Perhaps I am doing something wrong. Or maybe there is a bug. > > I have done quite a few installs in the last couple of weeks, > and on first boot, /etc/rc.firsttime doesn't work. It seems > that DNS isn't working yet, and perhaps /etc/rc.firsttime > runs too early in the process.
It needs to run early, because after updating the OS, daemons starting (including name server daemons) may depend on changes made by sysmerge. > fw_update doesn't work when /etc/rc.firsttime runs, but it > DOES work later. > > I have added a bunch of stuff in my install scripts to > /etc/rc.firsttime. Specifically, I try to download and > install sys.tar.gz, src.tar.gz, xenocara.tar.gz, and ports.tar.gz. > None of them work when /etc/rc.firsttime runs on the first boot, > but they all work later. > > The failures are all due to DNS resolving not working yet. So the only DNS server you list is on the local machine? This isn't the only place you'll have a problem - you will also have failures if you boot the install kernel and do an upgrade from there using a network source (which is where most people have run into this problem). > I must be doing something wrong. Because I would be shocked > if nobody else ever noticed this problem. I first noticed > that the wireless devices on the PcEngines apu.1d4 didn't work > with OpenBSD starting in about 2016. Only this week did I > figure out that it was because fw_update wasn't working. There are suggestions of doing something different for fw_update but changes there won't help your local commands that expect to have DNS before the daemon is running. > So, is there a bug (not likely), or what am I doing wrong? My recommendation would be to either run a second nameserver locally and list both, or if you don't have another suitable machine, then also list a nameserver on the internet (with overrides in /etc/hosts if you need split-horizon dns). Or for src.tar.gz etc, why not fetch them directly in install.site rather than deferring to rc.firsttime?
