* Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Stephen> Not to mention that quite a few things do things like DNS > Stephen> lookups which could take quite a while for an unconnected > Stephen> system (perhaps because something broke, or who knows > Stephen> what else, I've had it happen, waiting for sendmail to > Stephen> time out sucks). > > Or perhaps because the step that configures the network to support DNS > requests hasn't been executed yet...
Indeed, that can certainly be annoying.
> (I have seen a system that appears to run ntpdate on startup before
> the network is configured - but it hasn't bothered me enough to
> investigate why yet.)
Yeah, I recall seeing that happen too, though havn't hunted it down yet.
This situation might actually be fixed by the proposal which would
implement dependencies such that ntpdate would depend on a working
network...
Thanks,
Stephen
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