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On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 19:41 -0600, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> > My counterproposal is to |
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> > (a) fix init scripts for Category 2 so that instead of "use net" or |
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> > "need net", they only "use net.lo" or "need net.lo"; and |
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> I think it would be better if I provided another service these scripts |
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> could use|need, because the loopback goes by at least one name other than |
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> "lo" that I know of, and that is "lo0", so if I don't provide a service, |
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> all of these scripts would have to conditionally use or need at least lo |
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> or lo0 depending on which platform they are running on. |
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Maybe a virtual service called "lo", provided by net.lo and net.lo0? |
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> For the normal use case, I submit that category one should not care |
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> about the loopback interface, since we don't make remote connections |
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> that way. That would mean that loopback would not provide net by |
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> default. |
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Yes, that certainly seems reasonable. |
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-Alexandre |
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