Unintended Consequences; I shut down the wrong bind.

Chris Buxton chris.p.buxton at gmail.com
Wed Oct 3 16:09:16 UTC 2012


On Oct 3, 2012, at 8:35 AM, Martin McCormick wrote:

> 	Could shutdown have triggered rndc to give a stop
> command to bind?

Yes, depending on the scripts executed during system shutdown. Executing `rndc stop` during shutdown happens on, for example, Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

For this reason, the default server in rndc.conf should always be some form of localhost.

Chris Buxton
BlueCat Networks




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