bind9 / named questions

[William H. Magill]

On Jan 2, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:

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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
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>> The implication here is that named is running in the foreground (-f), not as a daemon.
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> It's running foregrounded under daemondo, which is a wrapper and monitor (of
> some kind; I haven't dug in too deeply).

I haven't found any separate man pages or documentation for daemondo ....
only "daemondo -h"

The interesting issue for named is that  when running with the "-f" option it  apparently "invokes" or otherwise "prevents"
certain kinds of logging. 

From:  http://www.bind9.net/manual/bind/9.3.2/Bv9ARM.ch06.html#id2553006
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channel default_debug {
    file "named.run";                   // write to named.run in
                                        // the working directory
                                        // Note: stderr is used instead
                                        // of "named.run"
                                        // if the server is started
                                        // with the '-f' option.
    severity dynamic;                   // log at the server's
                                        // current debug level
------------------<cut here>--------------------------------------

... so which file is "stderr" for something running from "launchd?"

As best I can tell, it's "/var/log/system.log," but I don't know that for a fact.


> 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).

Figuring out "rndc / key" ... is my "next" project. 





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