New Package: rbldnsd

[Paul Howarth]

Michael Fleming wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 17:06:49 +0100. Paul Howarth waffled thusly:
> 
> 
>>rbldnsd is a small and fast DNS daemon which is especially made to serve 
>>DNSBL zones. This daemon was inspired by Dan J. Bernstein's rbldns 
>>program found in the djbdns package.
>>
>>rbldnsd is extremely fast - it outperforms both bind and djbdns greatly. 
>>It has very small memory footprint.
> 
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>Package submission for review (src & i386, RPMs, spec, initscript):
>>http://www.city-fan.org/~paul/extras/rbldnsd/
>>
>>Paul.
> 
> 
> I've grabbed the SRPM and had a look...
> 
> Good:
> - Builds in mock (viva minimal dependencies!)
> - Clean, correct and readable spec file :-)
> - License OK
> - Runs fine.
> - Uninstalls cleanly.
> 
> Could do with a second look:
> - Defaults to "on" at runlevels 3 / 4 / 5.
 >
 > This could make hosts with BIND / djbdns / my-fave-dnssserver-package
 > unhappy if they too want to start automagically and bind 53/* on all
 > interfaces.
 >
 > Given that the package also has no zones, even dummy ones, I'd disable
 > it on all runlevels ("-" instead of "345" in the chkconfig line in
 > rbldnsd.init) and make the admin configure it before switching it on.

A fresh install wouldn't have resulted in a listening rbldnsd because 
the /etc/sysconfig/rbldnsd file supplied doesn't configure any daemons 
by default, but I've fixed this anyway.

> - Change references "/var/lib/rbldns/" to "/var/lib/rbldnsd/" in /etc/
>   sysconfig/rbldnsd

Done. That's what I get for changing the directory name that the 
upstream package used...

> - Where possible pass "-q" to the rbldnsd process on init.
> 
> This will cut down the initial console noise when it starts and allow the
> boot to continue while the process does it's thing in the background.
> 
> This would be especially helpful for large zones. This is again probably
> something to toss into the sysconfig file entry AFAICS. Any problems will
> log to syslog anyway in cases where it goes pear-shaped.

-q option added to examples in /etc/sysconfig/rbldnsd

> The above are the only showstoppers / issues I can see. If you can correct
> these I'll cheerfully approve it - I'd like to see something like this
> added, it's a very cool tool.
> 
> (As an aside, djbdns users who've previously configured that package's
> rbldns aren't going to like the chosen user (same username as that
> suggested in the DJB docs) but then again if they're capable of jumping
> through the hoops of installing djbware they can work around this one :-P)

I did intend to change that user name to rbldnsd but the default 
hardcoded into the binary is to use "rbldns", so I eventually decided to 
stick with the upstream decision there. I don't think it'd cause any 
real harm anyway even if both packages were installed.

Updated package (0.995-3) now available at 
http://www.city-fan.org/~paul/extras/rbldnsd/

Thanks for the review; any more comments?

Paul.