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On Monday 30 March 2009 13:19:26 Dale wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > His real problem isn't baselayout2 and openrc, it's named. |
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> > named is notorious for crappy stupid behaviour when being stopped and |
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> > confusing the init scripts. It happens to me so often that now I tossed |
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> > out the init script and do it manually. |
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> > One day when my country's currency is worth something I can afford ans |
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> > then I can get rid of named and it's start-up crap forever. It's still |
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> > the only service I ever have to use "zap" on |
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> I don't even know what named is but the zap option usually works for a |
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> lost service. Sort of like a reset button. I just wonder what would |
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> happen if it is really running when the zap option is used. Start a new |
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> process I guess. I guess ps would be a good friend then. |
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named is the BIND name server from the same guys as dhcpcd (and also vixie- |
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cron). It's a *reference* *implementation* of how a name server should work |
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(it exactly 100% behaves just like the RFCs say), but as a name server in |
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*production* it just sucks. It's extremely popular because it's free and just |
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because life evolved that way but in real life it's the world's worst PITA to |
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administer. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |