Bind problems with Debian Squeeze

Hi there


Sometimes RNDC doesn't work, making stopping bind using
/etc/init.d/bind9 impossible (rndc: connect failed : connection
refused.). Some suggest that /etc/bind/rndc.key should be owned
root:bind instead of bind:bind, but that doesn't help.
I put a retry counter in the /etc/init.d/bind9 stop section. If it
expires it bluntly kills Bind. I hope that helps

Bind starts too late. Some services which need Bind won't start.
I blame insserv; NFS is stared before Bind, but what's to use of NFS
when you don't have a running nameserver?
LprNg won't start either.
The weird thing is that I have all the required information in
/etc/hosts and a order hosts,bind.
Can I run Squeeze without insserv? I think that this will solve the problem.


Regards,
Rob
--
Wim T. Schippers for president
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand..._Drienerlo.jpg

Hi there


Rob van der Putten wrote:

> Sometimes RNDC doesn't work, making stopping bind using
> /etc/init.d/bind9 impossible (rndc: connect failed : connection
> refused.). Some suggest that /etc/bind/rndc.key should be owned
> root:bind instead of bind:bind, but that doesn't help.
> I put a retry counter in the /etc/init.d/bind9 stop section. If it
> expires it bluntly kills Bind. I hope that helps

This works.

> Bind starts too late. Some services which need Bind won't start.
> I blame insserv; NFS is stared before Bind, but what's to use of NFS
> when you don't have a running nameserver?
> LprNg won't start either.
> The weird thing is that I have all the required information in
> /etc/hosts and a order hosts,bind.
> Can I run Squeeze without insserv? I think that this will solve the
> problem.

Creating a (empty) file '.legacy-bootordering' in '/etc/init.d/' will
make insserv mimic the 'old fashioned' boot behaviour. That is, without
concurrency. This will start Bind earlier, preventing the LprNg problems.
The NFS problems were due to a 'stale' directory 'mountnfs' in
'/var/run/network/'.


Regards,
Rob
--
Wim T. Schippers for president
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestand..._Drienerlo.jpg