> Well, I must say I'm unsure what we'll do upon startup, because if we > accept to start with buggy host names, a number of admins will get > trapped with errors in their configs causing servers to remain down > forever. At least right now they know from the beginning that they > have to fix their configs. Maybe we'll have to support a per-backend > option to enable delayed host name resolution, I don't know yet. > > Regards, > Willy >
I think that you should allow this kind of behavior for people using Amazon (or any cloud) or people, like Andreas, who uses DHCP+ automatic DNS update. So untill the server has startup, it does not know its own IP address and of course, the DNS resolver can't point to it. cheers
