On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 01:51:58PM +0000, Tony Finch wrote: > Lightner, Jeff <jlight...@dsservices.com> wrote: > > > > With systemd the methodology isn't that BIND notifies other things that > > it is up. It is that other things, if dependent upon BIND, have in > > their systemd files a requirement that BIND be up before they start. > > Yes, but how does systemd know when BIND is up? > > (The Red Hat and five-ten-sg RPMs don't seem to have an answer.)
I'm not sure if BIND is set up to support it (and it doesn't appear that Centos 7 is using it), but the general answer is called "socket activation": http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/socket-activation.html With socket activation, you don't need explicit dependencies. _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
