Unbound/NSD rc startup order

Darren Pilgrim list_freebsd at bluerosetech.com
Fri Dec 12 10:15:40 UTC 2014


On 12/11/2014 11:53 PM, Matt Smith wrote:
> Somebody has let me know that I made an obvious mistake in the above. I
> meant that the default rcorder is to run Unbound first followed by NSD.
> So to clarify I think in the default situation Unbound starts first,
> contacts NSD and gets no answer because it hasn't been started yet and
> then fails in some way.  Whereas if NSD is running first then Unbound is
> happy.

Unbound requires SERVERS, but nsd requires LOGIN, a much later checkpoint.

The fix would be adding an rcorder override mechanism whereby one could 
specify additional constraints (like unbound REQUIRE nsd).  If there's 
interest for this, I can see about a patch.



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