Enrico Weigelt <weig...@metux.de> writes: > * Jesús M. Navarro <jesus.nava...@undominio.net> schrieb: > >> I imagine that in many cases if there's a locally installed >> authoritative nameserver it will be used by the local resolver too. > > That's just an assumption. In the last decade I had enough systems > where this was not the case. Authorative nameserver and local > resolver are two fundamentally different services, it's just a > coincidence that they're often provided by the same deamon. > >> So while not really a hard dependency (it can be avoided by having a second >> recheable DNS at hand or by forcing IPs instead of names in the NFS client >> config) it's probably a strong "nice to have". > > No, a clean design would be having two separate services, which > just *may* be provided by the same daemon.
Hostnames can also come from nis and ldap. Maybe all services providing name resolvers should Provides: name_resolver and nfs-kernel-server then should Should-Start: name_resolver That way nfs-kernel-server is started after the name resolvers but none of them is required. Does that look right? MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87aam9ca39....@frosties.localdomain