On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 09:27:35PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote:
[..]
> > Yes, but it looks more like name service that's not operating, ntpd
> > seems to be doing its best but can't resolve the hostnames?
Right smell, wrong pooch :) Thanks for the pointer to the ntp buglist.
> > I've always had to restart named after losing / regaining an interface,
> > most noticeably after a suspend/resume (eg a low battery suspend), so I
> > run /etc/rc.d/named restart from rc.resume. This looks like a similar
> > issue perhaps, though I don't see why restarting only ntpd would fix it.
>
> named is supposed to auto-probe for interfaces at a specific interval;
> see the "interface-interval" option. I forget what the default is,
> but on our servers we explicitly disable it by setting it to 0.
// We have no dynamic interfaces, so BIND shouldn't need to
// poll for interface state {UP|DOWN}.
// (will this fix need to reload after suspend/resume?)
interface-interval 0;
It's rare, maybe twice a year, that this laptop cum server suspends from
a 2hr+ lack of power - inverter failures, rewiring etc - so restarting
named on resume makes more sense than constant iface polling 'in case'.
cheers, Ian
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