New rc.d/named features for testing: auto-forwarding and wait on boot

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Mar 31 13:38:56 PDT 2009


Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <49D1B261.6010406 at FreeBSD.org>, Doug Barton writes:
> 
>> There has been some discussion recently about the idea of adding an
>> option for the rc.d startup process to wait until name resolution
>> comes on line. (There is also room for a more general "wait for the
>> network to come on line" option, but I chose to focus on the named
>> version since my time is limited atm.)
> 
> Maybe we need to do a more general mechanism, since many also
> would like us to have confirmed the wall-clock-time via NTP before
> we start anything that depends on it ?

I am not opposed to that, I just don't have time to work on it.


Doug

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