Re: [CFR] reflect resolv.conf update to running application

From: Brooks Davis (brooks_at_one-eyed-alien.net)
Date: 08/27/05

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To: "Matthew N. Dodd" <mdodd@freebsd.org>

    On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 10:19:06PM -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
    > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Brooks Davis wrote:
    > >On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 08:29:39PM -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:
    > >>I've got modifications to dhclient-script and a Makefile in /etc/namedb/
    > >>that implement this behavior. I'll clean it up for public consumption if
    > >>others are interested.
    > >
    > >Sounds useful to me.
    >
    > I've not yet come up with a good way to configure this behavior, other
    > than the bit that turns of the resolv.conf updating (touch
    > /etc/dhclient-no-resolv-conf).
    >
    > /var/run/named.forwarders is updated with a Bind named.conf forwarders
    > configuration section containing all DHCP provided nameservers. The
    > Makefile is placed in /etc/namedb and /etc/namedb/named.conf is moved to
    > /etc/named.conf.in and modified to include the lines:
    >
    > forward only;
    > #include "/var/run/named.forwarders"
    >
    > This will cause the nameserver to never perform recursive queries directly
    > but to forward everything to the listed forwarders.
    >
    > I'm open to suggestions on where to place the configuration knobs for this
    > functionality.

    I'd like to see dhclient-script pull in /etc/rc.conf. By doing:

    . /etc/rc.subr
    load_rc_config dhclient-script

    -- Brooks 

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