Re: 21.4 hangs in the absence of a net connection
Karl Kleinpaste writes:
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
writes:
> Probably IPv6. From PROBLEMS:
> **** New problem: IPv6 CNAME lookup
I have never configured anything for IPv6, anywhere.
And there are no CNAMEs involved at all.
>> Why should XEmacs care at all about network matters during
>> startup?
> Those Who Know insist that this is a feature, and that you should
> fix your network configuration.
Those Who Know are wrong, and my network configuration is actually
quite robust. Modem links drop; this is a fact of life, and trying to
blame other software's (XEmacs') misbehavior on this unavoidable
condition is an incorrect shifting of blame. Every time my link
drops, my interface autodetect scripts set about bringing it back up,
with the result that it is never gone for more than a few minutes; it
was mere happenstance that I noticed XEmacs' startup failure today
just when, by ¿bad? luck, I was starting XEmacs right when the link
had dropped.
--karl
I have to jump in and heartily agree with Karl here.
First citing 'Those Who Know' without references gets my hackles up.
In these days of instant access, it would be simple for you to look up
the appropriate RFC and cite it to us, complete with a URL. Citing
'Those Who Know' as the absent, unassailable authority takes us back
to out mothers saying 'You can't have it because I said so'.
Today I live on a Linux laptop, using dhcp to connect me to the
outside world when and if I need to tap into the nearly ubiquitous
flow of network traffic around me. My address will change. The
system administrator will break DNS.
The system administrator might even wish to use XEmacs to fix the
broken nameserver!
XEmacs should only seek nameservice when I need it! (We can actually
learn from Windozes here - laptops get by just fine with ethernet
connections getting plugged in and out)
I mean some of us still set EDITOR to be xemacs. On a 850 MHz
Pentium, having xemacs fire up because you typed crontab -e is no
problem. But it would be a problem if it forced a dial up from my
modem through my cell phone at $1 per minute to find out that I am
actually not using IPv6.
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