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I got myself a brand new 43 inches monitor, it’s amazing, the visual comfort is life changing.
It all worked pretty much immediately except one little annoying thing: 9 times out of 10, when putting the monitor to sleep with xset dpms force off and waking it up by hitting a key, it would not detect the HDMI signal for about the 30 longest seconds ever.

I finally found that if I change from X11 to the console (Ctrl-Alt-F1 then Ctrl-Alt-F7), it would detect the signal instantly. I suspected that a simple resolution change would do the trick, but changing resolution would also mess the windows positions. Fortunately, here’s what xrandr saw:

Ok this is possibly the easiest thing on earth but I didn’t see any clear documentation on the topic apart from a simple text file which actually helped.

The server runs into a FreeBSD jail, I won’t cover this part as there are plenty of good documentation on this matter already.

The first step is obviously to install nsd, for example using pkg:

# pkg install nsd

My master DNS server runs BIND so there’s no specifics regarding nsd, here’s the most basic configuration the slave needs: