[Opendnssec-user] dendency wrong in ubuntu packages

Jaap Akkerhuis jaap at NLnetLabs.nl
Wed Dec 14 07:40:33 UTC 2016


 Ondřej Surý writes:

 > networks, mounts are ok, but how you are going to make sure that a
 > remote MySQL server is available from within a local init system?
 > 
 > > Is it unreasonable for OpenDNSSEC to require certain resources to be
 > > available before starting?
 > 
 > With remote MySQL you cannot be even sure that MySQL is available for
 > a full run time of OpenDNSSEC, as there might be network breakages,
 > database might disconnect you due to capacity reasons, etc., the
 > server might be located after a HA proxy not handling TCP connection
 > handovers.
 > 
 > So any software that rely on another networking server must be able to
 > cope with unavailability of the networked service.
 > 
 > E.g. instead of failing to start when MySQL is not available, it
 > should refuse to run the first operation in the queue until it is
 > connected, etc.

So you are saing that it should try to connect to the database and
other need resources if any, before it becomes functional.

	jaap



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