On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 23:25 -0600, Satish Balay wrote:
On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Sandy Pond wrote:
> I see on last rawhide update that NetworkManager now requires bind and
> caching-nameserver. But the named service (bind) was not turned on:
>
> $ /sbin/chkconfig --list named
> named 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off
>
> Is it supposed to be turned on for NetworkManager?
I see this update for FC3 (not rawhide).
Any idea why NetworkManager requires bind?
It uses bind in a caching-nameserver functionality and named should
_not_ be turned on my default in this configuration. Use of bind as a
caching nameserver was done to work around deficiencies of nscd and
glibc and should allow user applications to be aware of changes
to /etc/resolv.conf faster, since the applications actually just talk to
127.0.0.1 for the nameserver, and its the caching-nameserver that
actually does the heavy lifting when /etc/resolv.conf changes since
glibc isn't up to the task.
Dan