Re: NM stopped using local caching nameserver?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 10:12 -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> I tracked this down some..  It appears part of the issue is a
> race condition between named and dbus.  The startup sequence
> has named start first, and then dbus...  but then named doesn't
> connect to dbus properly.  If I RESTART named then everything
> appears to work okay.
> 
> I suspect the problem here is that named doesn't retry to connect
> to dbus if it fails to connect on startup.
> 
> Would this be a named bug?

Well, probably an init ordering between named and dbus initscripts,
yeah.

dan

> -derek
> 
> Derek Atkins <warlord MIT EDU> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > At some point network manager stopped using my local caching
> > nameserver.  Using a mostly-up-to-date Fedora 7, my NM created
> > a resolv.conf that read:
> >
> >> # generated by NetworkManager, do not edit!
> >> 
> >> search ihtfp.org
> >> 
> >> 
> >> nameserver 10.0.1.1
> >
> > But it should be using nameserver 127.0.0.1.  I know I've got named
> > running with -D:
> >
> > [warlord pgpdev wde]$ ps auxww | grep named
> > named     2121  0.0  0.4  58668 14272 ?        Ssl  Sep12   0:00 /usr/sbin/named -u named -c /etc/named.caching-nameserver.conf -D -t /var/named/chroot
> >
> > I've got the following packages installed:
> >
> > bind-chroot-9.4.1-9.P1.fc7
> > bind-9.4.1-9.P1.fc7
> > caching-nameserver-9.4.1-9.P1.fc7
> > NetworkManager-0.6.5-7.fc7
> >
> > How can I get NM to use named again?  Do I need to remove the
> > bind-chroot package or somehow tell NM to connect to the
> > bind-chroot'ed dbus connection or something?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > -derek
> >
> > -- 
> >        Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
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