Comment 2 for bug 1234132

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Hello,

thanks for addressing this problem.

Am Do den 3. Okt 2013 um 0:49 schrieb Steve Langasek:
> And how are you configuring dnsmasq?

Just as a primary DNS server for that node.

> If you are using the stock Ubuntu desktop, you will have
> NetworkManager depending on the dnsmasq-base package, and providing a
> dnsmasq server that guaranteeably starts before NM signals mountall.

Well, I see no sense for dnsmasq to run on a desktop. And I see no sense
for networmanager to run on a server.

> If you are using dnsmasq some other way - for instance, by not
> providing any fallback DNS servers to resolvconf that would be usable
> by the system between the time the network interface comes up and the
> time dnsmasq starts

Well, dnsmasq _is_ a DNS server and it is usually the primary one.
Adding more DNS servers to the resolv.conf makes your server depending
on systems you do not want them depending on.

> - then sure, that's not going to work.

It should as with other DNS servers too that are installed on the system
itself.

> But that's nota bug in mountall; mountall has no way of knowing
> that the network isn't really up yet when it's supposed to be.

mountall is a essential part of the system; as is DNS. It is easily
possible with a normal system-V system to build this dependency. If it
is not with upstart ... However, I am not a expert of upstart so it
might be possibly with it too.

Network without a running DNS resolution is not "up"; logically.

> If anything, that would be a bug in the dnsmasq package for not
> integrating properly with mountall.

I do not understand this sentence.

Regards
   Klaus Ethgen
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