unbound and (isc) dhcpd startup order

Rodney W. Grimes freebsd-rwg at gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
Wed Jun 17 17:36:44 UTC 2020


> On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 08:18:59AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > ... Sometimes
> > that leads to duplicate IP information stored in various config files.
> > 
> > When possible managing those configuraitons via ansible or other CM
> > system that can pull the data from dns and build the config files
> > minimizes the work to keep it all up to date.
> 
> Would defining a variable in /etc/rc.conf help? Don't most/all rc.d scripts end up sourcing it? Works for me in my local startups.

No as it is usually .conf files that need this info, and those
do not source rc.conf.  Almost any routing protocol configuration
needs access to this data, dhcpd.conf is another one.  This
particular one, wanting to use names in a name service itself
is particularly hard to deal with.

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes at freebsd.org


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