[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#419796: makes ifdown take ten seconds more if openvpn is running

[Trent Lloyd]

Howdy,

> Instead, consider:
>
> 1. The only reason this script needs to run when an interface is taken
>    down is to restart avahi if avahi was disabled due to .local in the dns
>    when the the interface was brought up.
> 2. If that's the case, then /var/run/avahi-daemon/disabled-for-unicast-local
>    should already exist, created by this script when the interface came
>    up.
> 3. So if it doesn't exist, the script doesn't need to do anything else
>    when the interface is taken down. Just test for the file and exit if
>    it's not there.
>   
This assumes you are only ever connected to one network and downing one 
interface won't change the unicast .local situation, which is not correct.

Having said that, this delay is also annoying.

I wonder if we can background this check without causing hassles?

Cheers,
Trent