Setting 'verbosity: 0' in config will do it, but I don't think it should be necessary. At the very least putting the 'remote address' on the same line as the sendto notice would give syslog something of a chance to reduce the number of lines.
Could you ask for suggestions on unbound-users please? On 2016-01-14, Philippe Meunier <meun...@ccs.neu.edu> 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)? > > For info, this is the unbound(8) version 1.5.4 from OpenBSD > 5.8-release. > > Thank you, > > Philippe
