[CentOS] tinydns exceeds "holdoff time" on startup under CentOS 7

Mon Oct 27 22:05:02 UTC 2014
Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro>

It'd be nice if you reported this upstream.

Lucian

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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Boris Epstein" <borepstein at gmail.com>
> To: "CentOS mailing list" <centos at centos.org>
> Sent: Monday, 27 October, 2014 20:14:29
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] tinydns exceeds "holdoff time" on startup under CentOS	7

> OK, on the second take, even 5 seconds has proved to be enough of a sleep
> period in my case.
> 
> Just FYI.
> 
> Boris.
> 
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 4:07 PM, Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello again,
>>
>> I think I have resolved this issue by adding the following line to my
>> relevant service startup files:
>>
>> RestartSec=60s
>>
>> I presume the line forces a restart within 60 seconds (or with the time
>> allowance of 60 seconds). Actually according to this source:
>>
>>
>> http://www.dsm.fordham.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi.pl?topic=systemd.service&ampsect=5
>>
>> it is the former - the sleep time before attempting a restart.
>>
>> I put the line directly below the "Restart=..." line. See
>> my dnscache.service for example:
>>
>> [root at ns99 system]# more /usr/lib/systemd/system/dnscache.service
>> [Unit]
>> Description=An iterative DNS resolver daemon
>> Documentation=man:dnscache(8)
>> Requires=network.target
>> After=network.target
>>
>> [Service]
>> Restart=always
>> RestartSec=60s
>> PIDFile=/var/run/dnscache.pid
>> ExecStart=/usr/sbin/dnscache
>>
>> [Install]
>> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>> [root at ns99 system]#
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Boris.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Boris Epstein <borepstein at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello listmates,
>>>
>>> Somehow or other my DNS services that are part of
>>> the ndjbdns-1.06-1.el7.x86_64 package would not start properly at startup.
>>> When I then start them up using systemctl:
>>>
>>> systemctl start dnscache
>>> systemctl start tinydns
>>>
>>> they start just fine.
>>>
>>> From the log I got the following for tinydns:
>>>
>>> Oct 24 15:01:43 ns99 tinydns[1867]: tinydns: version 1.06: starting:
>>> Oct-24 2014 15:01:43 EDT
>>> Oct 24 15:01:43 ns99 tinydns[1867]: tinydns: DEBUG_LEVEL set to `1'
>>> Oct 24 15:01:43 ns99 tinydns[1867]: tinydns: DATALIMIT set to `300000'
>>> bytes
>>> Oct 24 15:01:43 ns99 tinydns[1867]: tinydns: could not bind UDP socket
>>> Oct 24 15:01:43 ns99 systemd[1]: tinydns.service holdoff time over,
>>> scheduling restart.
>>>
>>> Any idea why that would happen? Any idea how to increase the holdoff time
>>> in the configuration?
>>>
>>> The config for the service looks as follows:
>>>
>>> [root at ns99 etc]# more /usr/lib/systemd/system/tinydns.service
>>> [Unit]
>>> Description=A DNS server daemon
>>> Documentation=man:tinydns(8)
>>> Requires=network.target
>>> After=network.target
>>>
>>> [Service]
>>> Restart=always
>>> PIDFile=/var/run/tinydns.pid
>>> ExecStart=/usr/sbin/tinydns
>>>
>>> [Install]
>>> WantedBy=multi-user.target
>>> [root at ns99 etc]#
>>>
>>> I can't possibly spot anything wrong there.
>>>
>>> Any help much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Boris.
>>>
>>
>>
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