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From: Lanny Baron <lnb@freebsdsystems.com>
To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Subject: Re: named at boot
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, David Daugherty <doc@wcug.wwu.edu>
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Hi,
From my /etc/rc.conf (don't mess with /etc/defaults/rc.conf and put this in
/etc/rc.conf

named_enable="YES"
named_program="named"
named_flags=" -b /etc/namedb/named.conf"
named_flags="-u bind -g bind"

Regards,
Lanny Baron


On 05-May-00 Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * David Daugherty <doc@wcug.wwu.edu> [000504 22:59] wrote:
>> I've set up DNS according to a tutorial at
>> http://linux.open.ac.uk/issue44/pollman/dns.html but when I reboot my
>> system hangs as it's starting local dameons. I have to ^C to get it to
>> finish booting and then I notice that named is not yet running and have to
>> manually start it.
>> 
>> I presume the hanging is because some of my dameons are trying to resolve
>> some host. Where should I be starting named from?
>> 
>> my rc.local:
> 
> [...snip]
> 
>> 
>> Should I just be starting named in rc.local?
> 
> rc.conf has hooks for named, see /etc/defaults/rc.conf for the lines
> you need to add to /etc/rc.conf.
> 
> -Alfred
> 
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