I'm saying that the dependency on the network being up is bad for services. An example of a bad case: if the network interface is hotplugged or down and you're

I'm saying that the dependency on the network being up is bad for services. An example of a bad case: if the network interface is hotplugged or down and you're running Redis, do you want it to restart and have to drag the entire AOF file off disk just because you yanked the interface card because it was failed or failing? Your 20 second hotplug problem becomes a 15 minute block of IO coming off disk because you had to restart the process. So many problems come from such a simple dependency. Designing all services to handle and expect failures and just let init restart regardless of the state is the RIGHT solution.