why doesn't rndc return exit status ?
Danny Mayer
mayer at gis.net
Sun May 25 13:16:59 UTC 2008
Evan Hunt wrote:
>> unlike many daemons, bind allows for configuration changes without
>> restarting, since doing so can be slow and lose cache contents. That's
>> good, but it seems the exit status of rndc does not reflect the
>> success/failure of the operation.
>
> Indeed it doesn't, and it seems like a useful idea. It may turn out
> there's a good reason not to do it, but offhand I can't think of one.
>
BIND9 works asynchronously. It receives the request from rndc and works
on it and completes it later. Otherwise it could take a long time for
the request to complete. Take a request to reload a large zone. It may
take a while.
Danny
> Mail it to bind-suggest at isc.org and it'll get into our ticketing system.
>
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> Evan Hunt -- evan_hunt at isc.org
> Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
>
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