On Wed, 2017-01-18 at 21:25 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Rick Stevens <ri...@alldigital.com> said:
> > So, it launches
> > the network, says the network is up and moves along even though the
> > network isn't actually up. Your mount is sometimes attempted with a
> > functioning network and sometimes not. You're left to figure out why.
> 
> That's not true.  systemd distinguishes between starting the network and
> the network being available.  What is a bug is that a bunch of services
> depend on the first, not the second, and they don't start right (or at
> all, depending on config) when the network isn't actually available yet.
> 
> Any service that can be configured to bind to a specific IP should have
> "After=network-online.target" rather than "After=network.target".  This
> can be servers for web, mail, FTP, SSH, DNS, logging, and more.
> 
> This is a long-standing service configuration bug, not any inherent
> problem with systemd. 
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119787

Just as a matter of interest, why does "After=network.target" even
exist? In what circumstance would this ever be the right thing to do?

poc
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