Which runlevel to start named?

[echong]

Just setup a cache-only named and want to setup the startup script. What runlevel should it be and what sequence number? Since some of the processes will depend on name resolution, so I think there must be some limitation on starting the daemon.
Thanks

[Victor Fridyev · Accepted solution]

The level is 2
The script is
S370named@ -> /sbin/init.d/named

HTH

[Patrick Wallek]

On one of my machine it starts in run level 2 and stops in run level1.

/sbin/rc1.d/K630named
/sbin/rc2.d/S370named

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Run-level 2 is the most typical but after the core net processes have started. The default S370named link in /sbin/rc2.d works well unless you have "improved" the order of the rc scripts.

[Biswajit Tripathy]

As others have already said, sequence number is
370 in run level 2. Note that the networking and
interfaces are configured at seq number 340 in
run level 2. So if you are planning to use your own
startup script instead of modifying S370named,
you might want to pick up a seq number greater
than 340. On my 11.11 machine here, I see that
next script after S370 is S400nfs which might use
name resolution. Check your machine if there are
any other scripts before S400 that might use
named (like S356dhcpv6.server).

Word of caution. If you are picking an unused
sequence number then, you should know that
some patches or products (not installed on
your system) might already be using this number
and if you install one such patch/product that
might overwrite your script.

- Biswajit