package bind9 found 253600 1:9.6.1.dfsg.P1-3 thanks On 10-Jun-2004, Robert Millan wrote: > Because of the order in which bind9 is started in init.d, some > network daemons might be started before it. This means that if the > system resolver relies on local bind (i.e., 127.0.0.1 in > /etc/resolv.conf), network daemons might break. This happens for > ntpdate for example.
Another example of a service that requires the name resolver is the mounting of remote filesystems, e.g. mounting a filesystem from a remote NFS host name. The current init script has: # Required-Start: $remote_fs yet this is impossible if the mounting of remote filesystems requires name resolution. -- \ “I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then | `\ I thought ‘Why should I? He never reads any of mine.’” —Spike | _o__) Milligan | Ben Finney <b...@benfinney.id.au>
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