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

From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:20:35 +0000
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 ?

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Received on Tue Mar 31 2009 - 05:20:37 UTC

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