Re: @%$#$ can't start on RH 7.1
At 08:49 PM 7/23/01 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
I think there probably are problems, like autodialing on attempts to
use the network, that will be hard to configure around. But the CNAME
hang on startup is not one; you simply need to not configure your
nameservers until you have a working net connection. Every DHCP
My belief is that we should go out of our way to support default
configurations (however broken) by default. Most users IMO are just going
to download XEmacs and then get fed up. I think you have to start adopting
a Windows mentality for Linux these days :)
client does that already, and it should be reasonably easy to
configure PPP that way too.
This is no good to me - I have a fixed net connection (no dialup) - until I
take my laptop on BART. So I have to have the nameserver configured.
However, we also do canonicalization in sysdep.c (init_system_name).
Why that doesn't bite anyone, I don't know. I'm going to turn IPv6
I think probably it does bite - it bit me at least.
andy