On 2016-02-18, Christopher Sean Hilton <ch...@vindaloo.com> wrote:
>      My box cannot resolve the name "ike-v1.example.com" until
>      after isc_named is started which happens way late in the bootup

That seems like a misconfiguration - apart from this issue, what if BIND
crashes or you need to update it? can't you list another nameserver
in resolv.conf?

>      process. I've noticed that the rcctl manpage mentions changing
>      the startup order.
>
>         * Can I affect this change at all since isakmpd is a base
>           system service and isc_named is in pkg_scripts?

No, this is only for package scripts.

>      Just restarting isakmpd doesn't load /etc/ipsec.conf. Without a
>      configuration, I'm not sure how useful isakmpd is.
>
>         * Would it be wise to just add cron job that fires at reboot
>           and uses rcctl to reload isakmpd and then reloads the ipsec
>           configuration?
>
> As always, it's possible that I'm completely missing something
> here. I'm always interested in better solutions.

You could run isakmpd/ipsecctl from rc.local which always runs after
the main startup scripts. Otherwise you're into modifyong /etc/rc.

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