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Date:      Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:20:35 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: New rc.d/named features for testing: auto-forwarding and wait on boot 
Message-ID:  <96526.1238484035@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:04:17 MST." <49D1B261.6010406@FreeBSD.org> 

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In message <49D1B261.6010406@FreeBSD.org>, Doug Barton writes:

>There has been some discussion recently about the idea of adding an
>option for the rc.d startup process to wait until name resolution
>comes on line. (There is also room for a more general "wait for the
>network to come on line" option, but I chose to focus on the named
>version since my time is limited atm.)

Maybe we need to do a more general mechanism, since many also
would like us to have confirmed the wall-clock-time via NTP before
we start anything that depends on it ?

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