On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:37:09PM -0700, Nerius Landys wrote: > I am trying to figure out why DNS lookups are not possible right after > the "named" process has been launched (during bootup).
At start, named sends a couple of queries to e.g. root servers. All this requires the network connection to be already up and running; and if you're using a firewall, it also needs to be up and ready. And, more importantly, it requires some time until named is ready to answer lookups... and in the mean time, you've already launched other processes who do queries. I have a similar problem with a little FreeBSD-based home router running net/mpd5 to connect via PPPoE to a DSL line. Because packages (and so mpd) start after all system processes, named has problems to connect to the root servers, pf has problems initializing itself without ng0 interface, ntpd has problems initializing itself,... and when mpd finally established the network connection, it is already too late. I'd love to change the rc-order of the scripts, so that mpd starts first, waits until the link is up, and only then starts the other processes. But until I've found out how to do that the right way, I wrote a little batch script that gets invoked at link-up, and that simply restarts all other processes in the order: pf, named, ntpd, postfix, etc... That's not ideal, but as a kludge, it works for me. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
