Init : someone could comment this ?

[Les Mikesell]

Lennart Poettering wrote:

> Then, the reason I hacked this up was mostly to fix stuff like sudo
> and apache, which do a lookup+reverse lookup on initialization, which
> fails completely if DNS doesn't work (as in "*immediately* fail") and
> the entry is not available in /etc/hosts. DNS lookups that time out
> are a different problem.
> 
>>  And it still fails in the same way, when there is no network (Ie.
>> daemon can bind to a specific IP that is the "wrong" one).
> 
> Hmm?
> 
> Are you suggesting that there are daemons that bind on addresses by
> resolving host names? Who's doing something like that? Either daemons
> should bind on 0.0.0.0 or bind to manually configured IP
> adresses. Everything else is broken anyway.

There are a lot of things that can't work and will do horribly wrong 
things if started without a working DNS - and for reasons not related to 
your own hostname.  Such daemons would be better off if they could defer 
startup until after DNS works.

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   Les Mikesell
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