Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-23 Thread perryh
Nerius Landys wrote: > I am still bambuzzled by the network taking 30 seconds to come up. One thing I've run into recently is an Ethernet switch that needs to resolve spanning tree after a port reset. The physical link comes back up quickly, but it seems to take about 30 seconds before the swit

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread Mario Lobo
On Saturday 22 August 2009 21:11:01 Nerius Landys wrote: > >        I don't remember the original description, but any time I hear > > about a 30 second "gap" during startup, I think of the well-known DNS > > reverse look-up issue.  Are you sure this is not the case here? > > Indeed, I have forgott

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread Nerius Landys
>        I don't remember the original description, but any time I hear about > a 30 second "gap" during startup, I think of the well-known DNS reverse > look-up issue.  Are you sure this is not the case here? Indeed, I have forgotten to have the PTR record set up for my new IP address. However t

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread Robert Huff
Nerius Landys wrote: I am still bambuzzled by the network taking 30 seconds to come up. I don't remember the original description, but any time I hear about a 30 second "gap" during startup, I think of the well-known DNS reverse look-up issue. Are you sure this is not the case here?

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread Nerius Landys
> calcru: runtime went backwards from 37332 usec to 16577 > usec for pid 47 (sh)... Not to seem like I'm talking to myself, but I fixed this problem: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/troubleshoot.html#CALCRU-NEGATIVE-RUNTIME (Turn off Intel® Enhanced SpeedStep.) I am still bam

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread Nerius Landys
One last question. I'm getting interesting [kernel?] messages during bootup. You know, the kind that are highlighted white in the console. The relevant lines of rc.conf look like this right now: defaultrouter="64.156.192.1" hostname="daffy.nerius.com" ifconfig_em0="inet 64.156.192.169 netmask

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread Nerius Landys
Thanks for the script. I found the underlying problem on my system. My server is at a data center and I don't know what kind of equipment the server is connected to. It appears that it takes 30 seconds for the networking to start. I added this script as /etc/rc.d/waitfornetwork, and enabled it i

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread RW
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:37:09 -0700 Nerius Landys wrote: > Then why > can't I do a lookup right after named starts? Possibly it's a delay in bind being ready or maybe you don't have any network access - the latter is common with ppp. > By the way, the underlying issue that I'm trying to address

Re: /etc/rc.d/named dilemma

2009-08-22 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 09:37:09PM -0700, Nerius Landys wrote: > I am trying to figure out why DNS lookups are not possible right after > the "named" process has been launched (during bootup). At start, named sends a couple of queries to e.g. root servers. All this requires the network connection