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