diff -ruN dnsdist.orig/distinfo dnsdist/distinfo
--- dnsdist.orig/distinfo	2019-07-24 13:29:28.995235000 +0000
+++ dnsdist/distinfo	2019-07-24 13:37:32.273193000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1541860683
-SHA256 (dnsdist-1.3.3.tar.bz2) = 9fb24f9032025955169f3c6e9b0a05b6aa9d6441ec47da08d22de1c1aa23e8cf
-SIZE (dnsdist-1.3.3.tar.bz2) = 971253
+TIMESTAMP = 1563975452
+SHA256 (dnsdist-1.4.0-beta1.tar.bz2) = 8adadd26089de42a0f7047fd8e072084025704719b6540219be05d00a89830c2
+SIZE (dnsdist-1.4.0-beta1.tar.bz2) = 1011475
diff -ruN dnsdist.orig/files/dnsdist.in dnsdist/files/dnsdist.in
--- dnsdist.orig/files/dnsdist.in	2019-07-24 13:29:28.990853000 +0000
+++ dnsdist/files/dnsdist.in	2019-07-24 14:18:39.051173000 +0000
@@ -12,20 +12,36 @@
 
 . /etc/rc.subr
 
+case "$0" in
+/etc/rc*)
+	# during boot (shutdown) $0 is /etc/rc (/etc/rc.shutdown),
+	# so get the name of the script from $_file
+	name="$_file"
+	;;
+*)
+	name="$0"
+	;;
+esac
+
 desc="dnsdist is a powerful, scriptable DNS loadbalancer"
-name=dnsdist
-rcvar=dnsdist_enable
+name="${name##*/}"
+rcvar=${name}_enable
 
 load_rc_config ${name}
 
-: ${dnsdist_priv_user:=_dnsdist}
-: ${dnsdist_priv_group:=_dnsdist}
-: ${dnsdist_enable:=NO}
+eval ": \${${name}_enable:=\"NO\"}"
+eval ": \${${name}_priv_user:=\"_dnsdist\"}"
+eval ": \${${name}_priv_group:=\"_dnsdist\"}"
+eval ": \${${name}_config:=\"/usr/local/etc/${name}.conf\"}"
 
 pidfile=/var/run/${name}.pid
 
+conffile="$(eval echo \${${name}_config})" 
+username="$(eval echo \${${name}_priv_user})"
+groupname="$(eval echo \${${name}_priv_group})"
+
 command=/usr/sbin/daemon
 actual_command=/usr/local/sbin/${name}
-command_args="-c -f -r -P ${pidfile} ${actual_command} -u ${dnsdist_priv_user} -g ${dnsdist_priv_group} --supervised"
+command_args="-c -f -r -P ${pidfile} ${actual_command} -C ${conffile} -u ${username} -g ${groupname} --supervised"
 
 run_rc_command "$1"
diff -ruN dnsdist.orig/Makefile dnsdist/Makefile
--- dnsdist.orig/Makefile	2019-07-24 13:29:28.996005000 +0000
+++ dnsdist/Makefile	2019-07-24 13:37:20.899983000 +0000
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 # $FreeBSD: head/dns/dnsdist/Makefile 505909 2019-07-05 19:08:49Z sunpoet $
 
 PORTNAME=	dnsdist
-DISTVERSION=	1.3.3
-PORTREVISION=	8
+DISTVERSION=	1.4.0
+DISTVERSIONSUFFIX=-beta1
 CATEGORIES=	dns net
 MASTER_SITES=	https://downloads.powerdns.com/releases/ \
 		LOCAL/cpm