[bind10-dev] few configuration thoughts

[Michal 'vorner' Vaner]

Hello

On Wed, Apr 04, 2012 at 11:36:53AM -0500, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> > Why? Are they really components? The boss itself is not included 
> > either. I don't see any advantage in that for an administrator and it 
> > would need quite some hacks.
> 
> Not sure yet about this. But I think I'd like to see what commands are 
> ran by bind10.  Also is sockcreator required? (Is it needed for DHCP 
> only if not using cmdctl?)

It is not required, at least not now, but I think it will be needed in future.
Now the dhcp has the same problem as older auth/resolver, it needs to be started
as root.

Anyway, it would need some pretty heavy hacking to the boss code to allow it not
to be running. If that is requirement, it probably can be done, but see no
problem in the creator running ‒ it can run as normal user if you start the
system as a user, so it's not a security issue. And the memory footprint of it
is small and it doesn't seem to eat any CPU.

> My point is that I'd like to keep b10-config.db short and only contain 
> my custom changes and not include all the default configurations. Maybe 
> this is not a problem. Anyone else have any opinion on this?

Hmm, right. But I don't think the b10-config.db was ever meant to be edited or
seen by users.

I think we'll have to support some kind of startup from a real config file ‒
creating a temporary b10-config.db from it before starting the config manager.

With regards

-- 
Anything is possible, unless it's not.

Michal 'vorner' Vaner
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