At 10:01 AM 01/01/2002, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> > The "test" has an invalid premise. Must have been the written by Linux
> > people.
>
>In what way?
the premise that the network is broken if the machine doesnt have DNS
configured (or any other connectivity) at boot time. A simple "DNS not
available" message would suffice. I dont know of many programs that abort
on a DNS failure, and most of them are broken. syslogd in linux comes to
mind..which has zero reason to need DNS, although it just hangs for a few
minutes unless you kludge it, but it doesnt abort.
Dennis
Received on Wed Jan 02 2002 - 09:15:39 MST
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