On Monday 30 March 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 30 March 2009 13:19:26 Dale wrote: > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > His real problem isn't baselayout2 and openrc, it's named. > > > > > > named is notorious for crappy stupid behaviour when being stopped and > > > confusing the init scripts. It happens to me so often that now I tossed > > > out the init script and do it manually. > > > > > > One day when my country's currency is worth something I can afford ans > > > then I can get rid of named and it's start-up crap forever. It's still > > > the only service I ever have to use "zap" on > > > > I don't even know what named is but the zap option usually works for a > > lost service. Sort of like a reset button. I just wonder what would > > happen if it is really running when the zap option is used. Start a new > > process I guess. I guess ps would be a good friend then. > > named is the BIND name server from the same guys as dhcpcd (and also vixie- > cron). It's a *reference* *implementation* of how a name server should work > (it exactly 100% behaves just like the RFCs say), but as a name server in > *production* it just sucks. It's extremely popular because it's free and > just because life evolved that way but in real life it's the world's worst > PITA to administer.
hm, I hadn't trouble with named not stopping so far. Now apache updates... that is a can of worms.
