Non-responsive name servers when started during boot on OS X Mavericks 10.9

[Larry Stone]

On Jan 21, 2014, at 11:38 PM, LuKreme <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:

> 
> On 18 Jan 2014, at 06:52 , Larry Stone <lstone19 at stonejongleux.com> wrote:
> 
>> That is not the problem. 
> 
> In the launchd plist do you have something like
> 
> <dict>
>  <key>NetworkState</key>
>  <true/>
> </dict>
> 
> or maybe
> 
> <key>inetdCompatibility</key>
> <dict>
>  <key>Wait</key>
>  <true/>
> </dict>
> 
> to tell the system not to start bind until after the network is up?

No, but neither does Apple. My launched plist is the same as what Apple provided with OS X 10.8 as well as being the one at http://opensource.apple.com/source/bind9/bind9-45.100/org.isc.named.plist modified only for the slightly different file specs. Note that per the launchd.plist man page, NetworkState is an option to the KeepAlive key and does not stand alone in a plist.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>Disabled</key>
        <true/>
        <key>EnableTransactions</key>
        <true/>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>org.isc.named</string>
        <key>OnDemand</key>
        <false/>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
                <string>/usr/local/sbin/named</string>
                <string>-f</string>
                <string>-c</string>
                <string>/usr/local/etc/named.conf</string>
        </array>
        <key>ServiceIPC</key>
        <false/>
</dict>
</plist>

But another good area for experimentation when I have a chance (yesterday’s surprise announcement that Logmein is discontinuing their Free product effective immediately shuffled the priorities :-( ).

-- 
Larry Stone
lstone19 at stonejongleux.com
http://www.stonejongleux.com/



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