/etc/rc.d/named dilemma

[RW]

On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:37:09 -0700
Nerius Landys <nlandys at gmail.com> wrote:

> Then why
> can't I do a lookup right after named starts?

Possibly it's a delay in bind being ready or maybe you don't have any
network access - the latter is common with ppp.


> By the way, the underlying issue that I'm trying to address is that
> ntpdate, which comes right after named in the boot sequence, is not
> able to resolve the DNS for the time servers.


Try putting the following in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/waitfordns and make it
executable (untested)

 
#!/bin/sh
#
# PROVIDE: waitfordns
# REQUIRE: named
# BEFORE:  ntpdate

. /etc/rc.subr

: ${waitfordns_enable:=yes}
name=waitfordns
rcvar=`set_rcvar`
stop_cmd=":"
start_cmd="waitfordns_start"                                                   


waitfordns_start(){

   /usr/bin/dig +time=1 +retry=99 @127.0.0.1 google.com 2>&1 > /dev/null

}

load_rc_config ${name}
run_rc_command "$1"