please deactivate services by default!

[Les Mikesell]

Matej Cepl wrote:
> On 2008-09-24, 21:15 GMT, Dimi Paun wrote:
>>> Sendmail startup should only be slow if your dns is broken or 
>>> you've removed the localhost entry from your hosts file.  
>>> Either of those needs to be fixed anyway.
>> Give me a break. What naive user would know what to do with
>> the thing? Even if it takes 200ms to load it's way too much.
> 
> What was meant (I guess) is that if DNS is broken and there is no 
> localhost entry in /etc/hosts, user however naive will have 
> bigger problems than slow sendmail on start.

Perhaps there should be a diagnostic for that added somewhere to make it 
more obvious.  By the way, what is supposed to happen when you use 
private addressing but don't provide your own dns for it?   Does it 
annoy the root servers to get all those reverse lookup queries for 
ranges that don't have public servers?

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   Les Mikesell
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