> A new snapshot of the updated Eigerstein2BETA, together with a number
of
> new LRP kernels is available here:
Hi Ewald !
First of all congratulation for the great work. It looks like you are
getting close to the new Eigerstein release.
I installed the 20010527 release on my box. Follow my comments and
suggestions
1/ dnscache
There is to my opinion a bug in the dnscache.conf file. $IPSEND should
be initialized with 0.0.0.0 and not with $EXTERN_IP. Otherwise you need
to restart dnscache each time your external adress change (and therefore
you loose your cache) when you have a dynamic IP. With $IPSEND set to
0.0.0.0 (this is what has to be done according to DJB install
instructions). As far as I remember K. Haddley (I think) had problems of
this sort which were solved by this suggestion.
2/ dhclient
By the same token there is an interraction problem between dnscache &
dhclient. When dnscache is running you have to make sure, if you are
using dhclient, that your /etc/resolv.conf file is not periodically
erased. You have to modify the dhclient script to take care of that.
This is explained in the FAQ section of my dnscache.lrp user's guide
(http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/jnilo/dnscache.html)
3/ dnscache with or without daemontools ?
I have made available a dnscache package which comes with daemontools
utilities. The cost is 20K. It allow a very precise debugging & also
acces to my tinydns package (dns server) and more recently to qmail. It
is also fully compliant with DJB approach. I think it would be a good
think if we could have one and only one version of the package. I
volunteer to be the maintener. If you and Charles aggree I could suggest
two options:
3.a - You provide my "full" dnscache package in Eigerstein2BETA - I
would favor this option for the reasons mentionned above
3.b - I split my dnscache package in two pieces a daemontool.lrp piece
and a dnscache.lrp piece with a dnscache script which would be able to
handle both daemontool and non daemontool setup. I could do that if it
can lead to a unique LRP dnscache package.
4/ passwd and shadow files
There are a lot of useless users coming from a standard debian distro.
We all know it is a pain to add user in LRP... I would get rid of the
useless ones and would add those you are used in LRP packages: dnscache,
tinydns etc... -> I can make up a proposal. It will speed up
considerably the install process of those packages.
OK I stop here for now and will welcome your feedback
Jacques
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