Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 09:45:37 +0100 (BST) From: "Mark Powell" <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Using dnscache locally with FBSD 6.x Message-ID: <20060802094019.O16501@rust.salford.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20060801085450.56eadfe5.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> References: <20060801133245.B9668@rust.salford.ac.uk> <20060801085450.56eadfe5.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Bill Moran wrote: >> However, I use svscan to start up dnscache, and that starts very late in >> the boot. That means I can't just have the single "nameserver 127.0.0.1" >> line in resolv.conf, as every lookup would timeout until dnscache started. >> That means I need to replace resolv.conf early in the boot with the >> addresses of remote dns caches: > > Have you investigated the possibility of moving svscan's startup earlier in > the boot sequence? I don't know whether the svscan startup script is rcng > compliant yet, but if it is, you could move it to /etc/rc.d and move it > _way_ up in the startup sequence. I think it is rcng compliant. However, once in /etc/rc.d, how is the order of execution determined? I expect I will need to get it to run about the same time that named is usually started. > Another option is to put addresses that need to resolve before svscan has > started into /etc/hosts so that they don't need DNS. This could be > a maintenance nightmare, though, if there are many addresses. That sounds like a nightmare :( Cheers. > > -- Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - The University of Salford Information Services Division, Clifford Whitworth Building, Salford University, Manchester, M5 4WT, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 4837 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key
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