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On 08.06.2012 11:04, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
> We find it useful, and a significant aid to maintainability and readability
> of configuration files.
Hello,

What happens if your server reboots while the DNS
server is down/unavailable ?

This seems to be a bad idea for the same reasons
that putting hostnames in firewall configs are a bad idea:

You want the system to boot and work correctly
regardless of whether the systems DNS servers
were responsive at boot time or not.

Best regards

Thomas Steen Rasmussen