I read quite a lot of the answers to your post, and I still think there is a problem, not linked to the kernel's interface name name. I have a wifi interface named *everywhere* wlan0. It isn't found by network-pre.target, network-target or networking-service, I don't know which one. What I know is bind9 (named in fact) can't start, because /etc/insserv.conf asks for $network to start $named; after boot, when network is started there is no problem starting named by hand with: "named -u named -t /my-chroot-dir -c /etc/named.conf" but bind9.service doesn' start and tells me: Drop-In: /run/systemd/generator/bind9.service └─50-insserv.conf-$named.conf I suppose it's a bug, but as it works like this!! (See bind9-named post in debian-user-french list Jacques |