Re: RFC: Making mail-transport-agent Priority: optional
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011, Luca Capello wrote:
> > - Starting a daemon at boot time, which slows down booting. This led me
> > to notice the problem in Debian Live: it took a non-trivial amount of
> > time for the boot process to finish starting exim and move on.
>
> I experienced the same in the past on non-live Debian systems, but IIRC
> only when there was no network connection, is this a bug in exim?
More likely it is a bug elsewhere. When no networking is available, you
don't timeout. You immediately abort with a "no route to host" error.
The exception to this is stuff that brings up NICs blind to
autoconfigure networking (i.e. dhcp), and anything that depends on
replies to blind multicasting/broadcasting and therefore has to operate
based on timeouts.
mdns/avahi could be your culprit...
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