| The Ultimate Business Machine Technology, business And, not least, about by: Bernard Teo
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The Ultimate Business Machine - ArchivesList of Categories : Database * Technology * Commentary * Singapore * Travel * Thu 20 Jul 2006 Working around Workaround BonjourCategory : Technology/WorkingAroundWorkaround.txt I've updated both DNS Enabler (to 2.0.9) and MailServe (to 2.1.6) to handle the bug introduced by the OS X 10.4.7 update (that "Workaround Bonjour" thing) whereby the system would stall for about 60 seconds whenever a call is made to /bin/launchctl to start a launchdaemon (like BIND, Fetchmail, etc). I've changed DNS Enabler so that the Restart DNS button avoids calling launchctl, so that the only time you actually see the stall is when you first start the DNS service (be patient - it'll clear - and the DNS Server will still work correctly), and not when you stop the service, and especially not when you restart the service to make changes to your DNS data, which is pretty much what we do most of the time. I've done the same to the Restart Fetchmail button in MailServe, so that you don't get held up when you need to change Fetchmail parameters. It's important to note that this happens only on 10.4.7, and that the DNS and Fetchmail services (as well as Postfix, POP, IMAP, etc, i.e, anything started or enabled using launchctl) are all still launched correctly. Up to now, I've ascertained that this stall only happens when an application makes a call to the "/bin/launchctl load" comamnd (well, sometimes on launchctl unload, depending on the sequence of the calls you make). I believe this is probably an unfortunate side effect of the security-related changes Apple made to patch up the launchdaemon mechanism (launchd) in the 10.4.7 update. I've just installed a second broadband line to my home so that I can now do all the testing that I had wished I could do without interrupting service on my live server. I happened to use DNSUpdate and also Lingon just now and both of them stalled. Looked up the Console - and it's our friend, Workaround Bonjour. When is Apple going to fix this? As another aside - as I was posting this on the live server (from this second broadband line), I noticed that things had suddenly become rather sluggish on the live server. Guess what? - it's all the people coming over, via MacUpdate and Version Tracker, for DNS Enabler. So that's how my server feels like from outside. You never know when you're inside your own network. |
Mac@Work
Services running on this server, a Mac Mini running Mac OS X 10.9.2 Mavericks:
all set up using MailServe, WebMon, DNS Enabler, DNS Agent, VPN Enabler, Liya and our SQL installers, all on Mavericks. |
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