Patch for named rc.d script to allow multiple instances

[Doug Barton]

Hey George :)

Glad to hear that this will actually be useful for someone.

Doug


On 02/23/2016 06:09 PM, George Michaelson wrote:
> thanks for this doug. we need to do this, this is hugely useful to us.
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 2:57 PM, Doug Barton <dougb at dougbarton.us
> <mailto:dougb at dougbarton.us>> wrote:
>
>     Howdy,
>
>     I'm currently working on a project that requires multiple instances
>     of named to run on the same server. So I took some time to modify
>     the rc.d script to support that robustly.
>
>     The original concept for rc.d was that it should be easy to run
>     multiple instances of the same service, using a mechanism similar to
>     the one here. However that original mechanism was not ever/widely
>     used. As a result some of the code was removed, some of it rotted,
>     etc. It's still *relatively* easy to do, and hopefully the notes
>     included in the patch explain the process sufficiently.
>
>     FWIW, I don't care if the patch is incorporated anywhere or not. But
>     since the work is already done I thought I'd share it in case it's
>     useful to someone.
>
>     best regards,
>
>     Doug
>
>