Bug 147321

Summary:	named starts too late for programs that need DNS
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Evan Champion <evanchampion>
Component:	caching-nameserver	Assignee:	Jason Vas Dias <jvdias>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Evan Champion 2005-02-07 09:57:49 UTC

I installed caching-nameserver and made 127.0.0.1 my only nameserver
in /etc/resolv.conf.  Tastes great, and works much better than nscd
which doesn't work for my configuration (it does not work properly
with compat NIS notation, food for another ticket).

However, I have since had problems with some other startup scripts
(i.e. ypbind) that use nameservice.  named starts too late (S55named),
and without another nameserver configured, things don't work very well.

My assumption is that nameservice is a critical network service that
should be available as soon as the network comes up, so I moved it to
the space available at S11named.  Since then everything starts up great.

Comment 1 Jason Vas Dias 2005-02-07 15:51:07 UTC

Whether named is installed at any runlevel has always been up to the
administrator - they must do something like:
  # chkconfig --level=345 named on
  # chkconfig --level=0126 named off
because the chkconfig line in /etc/init.d/named has always been:
  
# chkconfig: - 55 45
# 

Meaning that named is not "on" by default in any run level, and is
started with order 55, and stopped with order 45.

As you point out, many services that require a name service are 
started before named by default, so the '55 45' positions are
not good as defaults .

In the next version of named, I will make the chkconfig line:
  
# chkconfig: - 11 89

so it should get started / stopped directly after / before 
the 'network' service .

The traditional behaviour of not being run in any runlevel by
default will be preserved.

Comment 2 Jason Vas Dias 2005-02-25 20:03:12 UTC

This is now fixed in bind-9.2.5rc1-1 (FC3) / bind-9.3.1rc1-1 (FC4).