[OpenIndiana-discuss] NTP not starting in Zones

[Jonathan Adams]

you have a good point about the order of services ... I'm just saying it
was strange that you considered it "safer" to run the daemons in the global
zone, as I'm kinda paranoid about that sort of thing myself.

Jon

On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 at 19:19, Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen at simple.dallas.tx.us>
wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Jonathan Adams wrote:
>
> > strange, I prefer to run all my daemons in a zone as it keeps them
> separate
> > from the core operating system, and reduces the access to resources.
> >
> > it's easy for a global zone to access the resources of the child, it's
> hard
> > for the child to access the global zone.
>
> The host (global zone) is booted prior to the zone and so it can not
> use the services of the zone until the zone is booted.  If the DNS
> server is running in the zone then some other means needs to be used
> for hostname/IP resolution while it is down.  The zone is typically
> down while booting and during system updates.
>
> I don't see how this could be considered "strange".
>
> Bob
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