BIND 10 #412: Configuration to determine whether to run authoritative or recursive server

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#412: Configuration to determine whether to run authoritative or recursive server
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      Reporter:  stephen       |        Owner:  vorner               
          Type:  task          |       Status:  reviewing            
      Priority:  minor         |    Milestone:  y2 12 month milestone
     Component:  Boss of BIND  |   Resolution:                       
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Changes (by stephen):

  * owner:  stephen => vorner


Comment:

 > I think this code can be simplified to just:
 >
 >       self.res_address = res_address
 >
 > It seems that it is a copy of the similarly looking code with address. I
 looked into
 > history and that one seems to be an artifact from times when address was
 passed as a
 > string and the default was empty string, not None. I pushed this one
 directly into the
 > repository, I hope you do not mind.

 No problems.  I've just noticed (and corrected) that default in the call
 to parser.add_option() for the address was the empty string - that's been
 changed to "None".

 > # Everything after the main components can run as non-root
 > if self.uid is not None:
 >     posix.setuid(self.uid)
 >
 > There should be a note that this is temporary.

 Done.

 > Current recursor in #327 takes only -v and -u parameters. It reads its
 listen addresses
 > and ports from configuration (and handles more of them, it does not
 allow changing them
 > at runtime due to #388) and I think there will never be the --no-cache
 option. It probably
 > does not make sense to run recursor without cache anyway. So maybe the
 arguments to it
 > should be dropped and -b and -q of boss as well.

 Done.

 Changes committed as r3655.

 > Like any configuration, any change at runtime should be reflected
 without restart.
 > Currently, if someone wants to run recursor only, it needs to be
 started, with auth, run
 > bind-ctl, change the configuration, shut it down and start again. But
 this might be
 > another task or ticket.

 I think this is part of ticket #304, to which I've added some comments.

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