Re: Should named be started before pf during boot?

["Joe Lim" <Joe.Lim@sit.edu.my>]

I have a similar case like yours and I did exactly the same way. 
I bet this is a good solution since your pf requires host name to be resolved. 

or you may modify your /etc/resolve.conf to point to another dns box(es)


On 30 Sep 2003 at 15:11, Mike Burns wrote:

> There are other solutions to the problem I am about to present; I am
> wondering if my solution has negative side-effect.
> 
> On boot up, pf is started before named is started. Thus, any
> computers mentioned in the /etc/pf.conf must be in /etc/hosts for them to be
> found, or named must be started first. It's more work then I need to
> maintain /etc/hosts in addition to the named configuration, so I modified
> the /etc/rc* to start named before pf.
> 
> If this is a good solution, should this be done for all systems? If it's a
> bad solution, why?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> [Please CC all responses to me.]
> 
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