Comment 13 for bug 999725
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| Paul Crawford (psc-sat) wrote Re: broken start-up dependencies for ntp | #13 |
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(Get the code!)
Yes, you are right in that our NIS servers are solaris boxes, and they do support behind-the-scenes DNS lookups as it turns out. It is also true that NIS is depreciated, though a lot of older installations like ours still use it, and for most machines DNS is available and will probably fix our specific issue.
But...that is still not an excuse for daemons (like ntp) that might depend on the directory service (NIS, LDAP, ActiveDirectory, etc) being started without a sensibly configured sequence/