From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 15 16:50:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA03811 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:50:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA03805 for ; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 16:50:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA07129; Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:21:22 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199709152021.VAA07129@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not DNS (was: nfs startup - perhaps it is a problem) In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 15 Sep 1997 08:44:37 +0200." <19970915084437.XX17061@uriah.heep.sax.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 21:21:21 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > As Nate Williams wrote: > > > NTP, AMD, firewall stuff. Heck, the default 'setup' assumes it can resolve > > hostnames just to configure your IP address, ... > > Huh? No, Nate, we've abandoned this long ago. We are using IP > numbers there to solve the chicken-and-egg problems. So is there a reason for not having named started at the end of network_pass1 rather than at the start of pass2 ? There's even a comment in rc saying that without resolv.conf, we need to start named before syslogd (it's actually started afterwards). The "original" problem that started this thread was that the mount -a -t nfs fails when there's no resolv.conf. > -- > cheers, J"org > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) -- Brian , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....