From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 12 9:50:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0754137B400 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:50:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Thanatos.Shenton.Org (a3.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.163]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 545D343E42 for ; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:50:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@Shenton.Org) Received: (qmail 80264 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Sep 2002 16:50:29 -0000 To: Ken Easson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which DNS server? References: <5.1.1.6.0.20020911160033.03cd94f0@mail.justken.net> From: Chris Shenton Date: 12 Sep 2002 12:50:29 -0400 In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.0.20020911160033.03cd94f0@mail.justken.net> Message-ID: <878z27gnje.fsf@thanatos.shenton.org> Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ken Easson writes: > djbdns - seems to like making my hd light up every second or so - > seems really hard on my system. as soon as i start tinydns the hd > spins up for about half a sec every 2 seconds, why does it need to > do this? can't it cache it's dns records in memory? I've been off BIND and on djbdns for a couple years: I really like its stability, speed, security, decoupling of cache and zone server, and small footprint. What you're seeing is not disk accesses for name resolution but a symptom of a failed install or invocation; I've messed up and seen the same thing. It may be that there's already a djbdns (or BIND) running -- using port 53 -- and you're trying to invoke djbdns but it can't get the port, so it sleeps for a couple seconds and starts again. I'm assuming you're using the daemontools stuff as recommended by DJB and www.lifewithdjbdns.org. Could be other similar startup problems. Check the logs. Once you figure that out, it will run like a dream. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message