bind9 / named questions

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 1/2/11 15:46 , William H. Magill wrote:
>> ps auxw | grep named
> root      4419   0.0  0.6   623964  11588   ??  S     5:10PM   0:00.36 /opt/local/sbin/named -f
> root      4417   0.0  0.0   611772    720   ??  Ss    5:10PM   0:00.39 /opt/local/bin/daemondo --label=bind9 --start-cmd /opt/local/sbin/named -f ; --restart-netchange --pid=exec
> magill   60699   0.0  0.0   590736    308 s000  R+    3:21PM   0:00.00 grep named
> 
> The implication here is that named is running in the foreground (-f), not as a daemon.

It's running foregrounded under daemondo, which is a wrapper and monitor (of
some kind; I haven't dug in too deeply).

In any case, the BIND 9 way of doing things is the "rndc" command, which
works fine regardless of how it's started (you will need to roll an
authentication key though).

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electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university      KF8NH
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