In message: <[email protected]> Andrew Reilly <[email protected]> writes: : On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 01:25:22PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: : > In message: <[email protected]> : > Astrodog <[email protected]> writes: : > : As unfortunate (and annoying) as that delay was, your system was in a : > : "defined" state, at the end of rc.d. As things stand now, that doesn't : > : appear to be the case anymore, and I think that may be a more : > : significant issue than the delay. : > : > I'd be happy with synchronous dhcp. : : The more general problem is the (large) number of network : applications that assume that network addresses and routes never : change (because that's how things were when they were written.) : My personal pet peeve is ntpd, but there are many others. Any : daemon that caches host IP address information at startup is : (IMO) broken, and needs to be fixed. There are many reasons why : network addresses may change *after* startup, and it is not : reasonable to go around and manually HUP everything when that : happens.
True. : Needing synchronous DHCP as a work-around here is just the : signifier of the problem: it isn't the over-all solution. It is a short-term work-around at best. Warner _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-usb To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
