Bug#575473: dbndns: No howto or tutorial documentation for configuring tinydns.
John Wenger
Version: 1:1.05-4+lenny1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
I have used djbdns off and on for years (woody, sarge, and before) but I was never able to get it to work using the debian way. Everyone said just use DJB's method, and it worked as a charm. Now, years later, I tried teh Debian way using the Lenny deb dbndns, and once again I am defeated. The man pages are reference pages, without examples, and the DJB website has tutorial instructions the DJB-way but not for the Debian way. Debian needs to either put things where DJB's tutorial expects them, or Debian needs to write their won tutorials. Bythe way, I have the dnscache running fine, returning results in 2 ms.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5.028stab064.7 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages dbndns depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
Versions of packages dbndns recommends:
ii daemontools 1:0.76-3 a collection of tools for managing
ii daemontools-run 1:0.76-3 daemontools service supervision
ii make 3.81-5 The GNU version of the "make" util
ii ucspi-tcp 1:0.88-2 command-line tools for building TC
Versions of packages dbndns suggests:
ii dnscache-run 1:1.05-4+lenny1 djbdns dnscache service
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Gerrit Pape
> I have used djbdns off and on for years (woody, sarge, and before) but
> I was never able to get it to work using the debian way. Everyone
> said just use DJB's method, and it worked as a charm. Now, years
> later, I tried teh Debian way using the Lenny deb dbndns, and once
> again I am defeated. The man pages are reference pages, without
> examples, and the DJB website has tutorial instructions the DJB-way
> but not for the Debian way. Debian needs to either put things where
> DJB's tutorial expects them, or Debian needs to write their won
> tutorials. Bythe way, I have the dnscache running fine, returning
> results in 2 ms.
Hi, I'm sorry that you got frustated. I see that the dbndns package
lacks documentation that's included in the djbdns package. I don't know
why you chose the dbndns package instead of djbdns. Would this
information in /usr/share/doc/dbndns/README.Debian have helped you?:
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djbdns for Debian
-----------------
This package provides the djbdns programs, installed into /usr/bin/, and
man pages. When configuring and enabling djbdns services, please note
that daemontools' default directory for services on Debian is
/etc/service/, not /service/.
See http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html for detailed documentation.
-- Gerrit Pape <pa...@smarden.org>, Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:14:00 +0000
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Apart from these changes, you should be able to configure and run djbdns
using upstream's method.
The man pages contain exactly the information that you get from
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns.html.
Regards, Gerrit.
Gerrit Pape
quit
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:30:37PM -0700, John Wenger wrote:
> > 'entry in /etc/sv', where did you read about that?
> >
>
> I did not read about it at all that I can recall, but simply noticed the
> entry there. It may have apppeared after I ran that dnscache setup
> program. This one:
>
> ii dnscache-run
> 1:1.05-4+lenny1 djbdns dnscache service.
>
> Here is what /etc/sv contains:
Yes, but you shouldn't bother, it's just the location of the directory.
It's accessible through /etc/dnscache/, just as upstream's documentation
suggests, see
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/run-cache.html