named needs restart after a reboot

[Warren Block]

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Derrick Ryalls wrote:
> uname:
>
> FreeBSD example.com 8.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 #0: Sun Dec
> 6 11:23:52 PST 2009     ryallsd at example.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FRODO
> amd64
>
> I have most things working, but I have noticed that every time I
> reboot the machine, I need to manually restart named to get it
> listening on the proper interfaces as by default it is listening on
> 127.0.0.1 interfaces only.  A simple /etc/rc.d/named restart fixes it
> which seems like it would be configured correctly, but I have had to
> do this on a install before.
>
> Anyone have a guess as to what could be wrong?

Only a guess: network interface comes up too late.  If you're using DHCP 
to configure that interface, you could try SYNCDHCP.  Or if it's an 
re(4) interface, there are patches in 8-STABLE that make it come up 
faster.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA