[SPAM] Re: why doesn't rndc return exit status ?

[Danny Mayer]

Evan Hunt wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> True, but adding an option to have rndc wait for a reply before exiting
> could be workable.
> 

It's a really bad idea in my opinion. It's better to have rndc status 
show the status of inprocess commands.

Danny