Name

walldns-conf — obsolete program for creating service definitions

Synopsis

walldns-conf {acct} {logacct} {D} {ip}

Description

walldns-conf sets up a DNS wall service.

walldns-conf creates a service directory D that runs walldns. The name D must start with a slash and must not contain any special characters. Normally D is /etc/walldns.

You can run the service under svscan by creating a symbolic link in the svscan directory:

ln -s D /service

The service will start within five seconds, and will be restarted upon reboot. You can use svc to control the service. walldns-conf arranges for walldns to chroot to D/root and to run under the uid and gid of acct. The name acct must not contain any special characters.

walldns-conf arranges for walldns to listen for UDP packets on port 53 of ip, and to send outgoing packets from ip.

walldns-conf creates an automatically rotated log directory in D/log/main. The logs are owned by logacct. The corresponding multilog processes run under the uid and gid of logacct. The name logacct must not contain any special characters.

History

walldns-conf was originally part of Daniel J. Bernstein's djbdns toolset in 1999.

Author

Original code and documentation by Daniel J. Bernstein. Documentation modernizations by Jonathan de Boyne Pollard.