unbound and (isc) dhcpd startup order

Ryan Steinmetz zi at freebsd.org
Tue Jun 16 16:36:21 UTC 2020


On (06/16/20 08:14), Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>Ok, well, I just thought of one and not sure if it is an issue or not,
>doesng unbound have the ability to specify interfaces?  If so those
>may not exist until NETWORKING has run?
>

Unbound isn't really going to do anything useful without the network.  I 
don't think it is unreasonable that it should depend on NETWORKING.

I think we're in an edge case here and, perhaps, a better solution might 
be to have someone(tm) add in support in rc.conf to specify dependency 
overrides.

So, perhaps you could set:

dhcpd_after="unbound"

Which would factor into the rcorder processing and make sure that dhcpd 
starts after unbound.

This would allow people to fine-tune things when they run into cases 
like this.

-r

The idea that a daemon that depends on the network being functional
>>  > > >> On a related note, unbound rc script provides "unbound" service.
>>  > > >> I think that maybe it should provide something more generic such as "nameserver"
>>  > > >> or "dns-server" (not sure if there is an established name for that).
>>  > > >> The reason I am saying this is that, IMO, if unbound is replaced with some other
>>  > > >> name server implementation the rc dependency chains should stay the same.
>>  > > >
>>  > > > I do not see anything in the base system that uses unbound or local_unbound
>>  > > > service name, so this looks like it could be straightforward, though there
>>  > > > may be some ports that have use of this token.
>>  > > >
>>  > > > For the blue bikeshed I find that "server" is just noise in the token
>>  > > > and that "dns" already has "s" for system, so just "dns" is good with me :-)
>>  > >
>>  > > That's a good point.
>>
>> I don't agree. The term dns is too generic. People are often running
>> dfferent nameservers on the same machine, as example: authoritative
>> and nonauthoritative (e.g. nsd & unbound).
>
>Given examples by others your right, we can not put all of these
>behind the knob "dns".
>
>> Regards,
>> 	jaap
>-- 
>Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org

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