* Brian May (bam@debian.org) wrote: > >>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> 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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