D. J. Bernstein
Internet publication
djbdns

The pickdns-conf program

pickdns-conf sets up a load-balancing DNS publication service.

Interface

     pickdns-conf acct logacct D ip

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

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.

pickdns-conf arranges for pickdns to chroot to D/root and to run under the uid and gid of acct. The name acct must not contain any special characters.

pickdns-conf creates D/root/Makefile to run pickdns-data upon request.

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

pickdns-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.