Re: [gentoo-user] Does this qualify as some bug ?

[Ralf Stephan]

> While trying to prevent 'net-dns/pdnsd' to listen on TCP and on to
> avoid TCP queries, I changed 'tcp_server' parameter to 'off' and
> 'query_method' parameter to 'udp_only' in /etc/pdnsd/pdnsd.conf . But
> when I restarted pdnsd I found it is still listening on TCP. I checked
> /etc/conf.d/pdnsd and found no option related to listening to 'TCP'
> set. So, then I checked /etc/init.d/pdnsd and I found that 'pdnsd' has
> been launched with '-t' command line argument (enables the TCP server
> thread. pdnsd will then serve TCP and UDP queries.) . So to disable, I
> need to append '--notcp' to PDNSDCONFIG in /etc/conf.d/pdnsd. So I
> think, listening shouldn't be made by default, even if it is, then it
> should be in configuration file, not in init.d script .

Since noone answered, I'll try. I'm not into the details of your
problem but I have the impression your suggestion should be stated
to the pdnsd developing community, not on gentoo. I'd qualify it as
bug, but YMMV, and again, I don't know much about it.

ralf
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