[CentOS] djbdns under CentOS7: startup and socket issues

[James Hogarth]

On 20 Oct 2014 12:41, "Boris Epstein" <borepstein at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> sshd is not a telnetd-type servide yet it uses a .socket file. So I
thought
> djbdns should as well.
>

It can be run that way as an option:

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/inetd.html

> As for why DJBDNS - we have used it for a long time due to the security
> advantages. And yes, BIND is now much better than it used to be and we may
> switch to it at some point but for now we are still trying to get DJBDNS
to
> work.
>

If you are using the 1.05 tar from the djb site this is a very bad idea -
see previous links for reasons.

> I am close - when I start it manually and when I use it locally. So all I
> need to do is figure out how to start it automatically as well as how to
> open the necessary ports in the firewall.
>

The correct answer here to ease your maintenance burden if you insist in
djbdns is to use the ndjbdns package in epel that has already been
mentioned.