[dnsdist] dnsdist general question

[bert hubert]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 03:51:40PM +0000, Federico Olivieri wrote:
> I everybody,
> 
> Going through the dsndist README i found the makekey() command as first
> thing to run dsndist. However, is not clear to me why this step is needed
> (my dnsdist run without it) Can you please help to understand that?

You need it if you had the 'controlSocket("0.0.0.0")' statement in there
which would have enabled the control socket. Then --client will work.

	Bert

> 
> Also, when I try to put dnsdist in client mode from daemon mode, I get this
> error
> 
> root at raspberrypi:~# dnsdist --client
> Read configuration from '/etc/dnsdist/dnsdist.conf'
> Added downstream server 0.0.0.0:0
> Added downstream server 0.0.0.0:0
> Added downstream server 0.0.0.0:0
> Connecting to 127.0.0.1:5199
> Fatal error: connecting socket to 127.0.0.1:5199: Connection refused
> 
> I tried different combination with mi IP address as
> root at raspberrypi:~# dnsdist --local=172.16.0.2:53 --client
> root at raspberrypi:~# dnsdist --local=172.16.0.2:53 --client
> 
> But same result.
> 
> Any suggestion?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Federico

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