Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Re: resolvd recongizing unbound

On Aug 31 16:32:23, weerd@weirdnet.nl wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 03:31:18PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote:
> | The running resolvd recognizes if unwind is running,
> | and places 127.0.0.1 at the top of resolv.conf accordingly.
> |
> | Could we have the same for unbound please?
> | I run unbound insted of unwind to also serve some
> | local names the machines around the office (beside resolution).
> |
> | But resolvd only recognizes unwind, not unbound;
> | so resolv.conf lists just the external (dhcp) nameservers
> | who don't know my local names of course.
> |
> | Or is there a reason resolvd only honors unwind
> | but not unbound?
>
> In this case, why would you not simply disable resolvd and put ::1 in
> /etc/resolv.conf yourself?
>
> resolvd is great for when the contents of resolv.conf change as you
> move from network to network and you may want to use different
> resolvers as you do. But if you're using unbound on the local system,
> why would you still run resolvd?
>
> 1. rcctl disable resolvd
> 2. echo ::1 > /etc/resolv.conf
> 3. ...
> 4. profit
>
> Just because there's a shiny new tool, doesn't mean you MUST use it.

Right. Disabling resolvd seems the simplest way on this machine.

Thanks,

Jan

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