On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 07:26:32AM GMT, Philippe Meunier wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a laptop computer configured to use unbound(8) and ntpd(8) but
> which does not have any network interface configured by default
> (except lo0, obviously) since which interface needs to be configured
> and how depends on where I'm using the computer.
>
> After booting, unbound(8) and ntpd(8) both start without problem.
> Then ntpd(8) automatically starts trying to contact NTP servers from
> pool.ntp.org, which triggers DNS queries. In turn unbound(8) tries to
> contact root DNS servers and fails since no network interface is
> configured. Unbound(8) then logs messages to syslog:
>
> Jan 14 10:07:58 mycomputer unbound: [2824:0] notice: sendto failed: Can't
> assign requested address
> Jan 14 10:07:58 mycomputer unbound: [2824:0] notice: remote address is
> 192.5.5.241 port 53
>
> The problem is that unbound(8) generates such a pair of messages up to
> 20 times for each root server! That's 2 lines * 20 times * 13 root
> servers = 520 lines that end up going to syslog. Then 15 seconds
> later ntpd(8) tries again and you get another 520 lines, and so on.
> This continues until a network interface is configured. The result is
> that I've accumulated over 16000 lines of log messages like the ones
> above over just the past three days...
>
> So is there a way to make unbound(8) more quiet (short of sending the
> log messages to /dev/null)?
Hi Philippe,
How about simply disabling unbound at boot:
# rcctl disable unbound
and then have something like this in your /etc/hostname.if:
rcctl -f start unbound
> For info, this is the unbound(8) version 1.5.4 from OpenBSD
> 5.8-release.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Philippe
Regards,
Raf
