package dante-server retitle 538008 dante-server: dante won't start if the external interface is not up. severity 538008 normal thanks
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 01:36:48PM +0100, Victor Pablos Ceruelo wrote: > Package: dante-server > Version: 1.1.19.dfsg-3 > Severity: grave > Justification: renders package unusable > > When the external interface is not up yet (like in wireless connections) > dante does not start. > It says "can't find interface" and terminates. Thanks for your bug report! Yes, I understand how this could be a problem for you. Unfortunately, I don't think this is exactly a bug :> It is more or less the way that dante has been designed to work. As part of its startup routine, the dante server tries to figure out some information about the system's network configuration so that it can bind properly to the addresses it wants, thus speeding up the actual forming of connections later on when the clients request it. In this process, the server tries to figure out the IP addresses of the interfaces it should send out data on, and fails if it can't. I realize that this is a bit inconvenient when interfaces come and go, but changing it might require major changes in dante's mode of operation. What you describe is not exactly a crash - it's more like the server detects what it thinks is *incorrect* configuration, and it refuses to start up with it :> Yes, I know that it is not "incorrect" in your point of view - and you're sort of right, it's just that dante doesn't work this way :) Could you try to set things up so that the dante server starts when the interface comes up, and stops when the interface comes down? Something like "up invoke-rc.d --force dante-server start" and "down invoke-rc.d --force dante-server stop" in /etc/network/interfaces, and disabling the dante-server automatic start-up at runlevels 3, 4, 5? G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@space.bg r...@freebsd.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 I've heard that this sentence is a rumor.
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