Re: named or not?

[Tomislav Vujec <tvujec redhat com>]

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 14:41 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> No, NM no longer spawns named directly at any point.  If named is
> already running (we check whether the DBUS service that named provides
> is active or not) then NM will use it.  If the service is not running,
> NM falls back to writing /etc/resolv.conf.  NM no longer launches named
> at all.

I've noticed that patched bind also comes with the service file:
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/named.service
As it is now, D-BUS uses similar service file for dhcdbd to start the
service if it is not already running. Why is starting named a
requirement, while starting dhcdbd happens automatically? 

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