Hello, I have a laptop computer configured to use unbound(8) and ntpd(8) but which does not have any network interface configured by default (except lo0, obviously) since which interface needs to be configured and how depends on where I'm using the computer.
After booting, unbound(8) and ntpd(8) both start without problem. Then ntpd(8) automatically starts trying to contact NTP servers from pool.ntp.org, which triggers DNS queries. In turn unbound(8) tries to contact root DNS servers and fails since no network interface is configured. Unbound(8) then logs messages to syslog: Jan 14 10:07:58 mycomputer unbound: [2824:0] notice: sendto failed: Can't assign requested address Jan 14 10:07:58 mycomputer unbound: [2824:0] notice: remote address is 192.5.5.241 port 53 The problem is that unbound(8) generates such a pair of messages up to 20 times for each root server! That's 2 lines * 20 times * 13 root servers = 520 lines that end up going to syslog. Then 15 seconds later ntpd(8) tries again and you get another 520 lines, and so on. This continues until a network interface is configured. The result is that I've accumulated over 16000 lines of log messages like the ones above over just the past three days... So is there a way to make unbound(8) more quiet (short of sending the log messages to /dev/null)? For info, this is the unbound(8) version 1.5.4 from OpenBSD 5.8-release. Thank you, Philippe
