Bug#606317: apache2: upgrade to sysvinit causes apache virtualhosts to fail - started before bind9

[christoph@hilbert.alphasky.net]

Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> wrote:

> Hi Ian,
>
> I think that if nobody found the issue, it's because nowadays, almost
> everyone is using IP based virtualhosts, because starting apache with
> named virtualhost makes apache resolve as many hostname as you have
> vhosts, and in many situations, this can take a long long time.
>
> Anyway, did you try to add a:
>
> Sound-Start: bind9
>
> in the init script dependencies of Apache? Does it fixes the issue?
>
> Thomas
>
>
>

Hi Thomas,
most people who have a restricted number of ip addresses use name based virtualhosts though. I rather think that not everyone is running bind in order to ensure name resolving. External nameservers are another option and I don't know wheter it can be considered as a default to have an own one.

Regards,
Christoph