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bind9 package

Installing bind9 as per HACKING.txt leaves a running bind daemon on developer's machines

Bug #1026857 reported by Julian Edwards
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MAAS
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High
Julian Edwards
bind9 (Ubuntu)
Triaged
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Bug Description

MAAS brings up short-lived instances of named in its test suite,
and when running in "development" mode. It requires that bind9 is
installed, but does not use the system instance of named. It
would be useful to have an option to disable start of bind9. This
may also be useful if running an alternative nameserver on the
machine.

See original description

Related branches

lp://staging/~julian-edwards/maas/bind-hacking
Raphaël Badin (community): Approve
Diff: 15 lines (+5/-0)
1 file modified
HACKING.txt (+5/-0)
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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote :

One way to stop it is to put

exit 1

at the top of /etc/default/bind9

Changed in maas:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
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Gavin Panella (allenap) wrote :

I don't think it interferes with anything to leave it running, and RSS
on my machine is <4MB, so I'm not sure this is high priority. Also, it
should probably be targeted at bind9 in Ubuntu, to provide a
convenient way to disable start.

Changed in maas:
importance: High → Low
description: updated
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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote :

Adding the above instructions to HACKING.txt is perfectly fine for now.

Changed in maas:
importance: Low → High
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Robie Basak (racb) wrote :

We could add a debconf option which writes another entry to /etc/default/bind9 that the init script then checks. But this change should probably best go to Debian in the first instance, since it would equally apply to them.

How important for the MAAS team is it to get this functionality into Ubuntu?

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Raphaël Badin (rvb) wrote :

fwiw, I'm with Gavin on this one, that's a *minor* problem with the *dev* environment so that definitely seems like "low priority" to me.

Robie Basak (racb)
Changed in bind9 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote : Re: [Bug 1026857] Re: Installing bind9 as per HACKING.txt leaves a running bind daemon on developer's machines

On Friday 20 Jul 2012 10:50:23 you wrote:
> fwiw, I'm with Gavin on this one, that's a *minor* problem with the
> *dev* environment so that definitely seems like "low priority" to me.

Guys, please look at the description of the priorities.

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Julian Edwards (julian-edwards) wrote :

On Friday 20 Jul 2012 10:38:34 you wrote:
> We could add a debconf option which writes another entry to
> /etc/default/bind9 that the init script then checks. But this change
> should probably best go to Debian in the first instance, since it would
> equally apply to them.
>
> How important for the MAAS team is it to get this functionality into
> Ubuntu?

Hi Robie. It's not at all important.

Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)
Changed in maas:
assignee: nobody → Julian Edwards (julian-edwards)
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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