id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	uname	nginx_version
696	host not found prevents nginx from starting	Roman Odaisky		"Suppose I have “listen somehost.mydomain:80”, and the name server for domain mydomain is located on the same machine as nginx. During system startup, if nsd isn’t ready by the time nginx starts (which happens with systemd), failure to resolve the DNS name causes nginx to quit altogether.

Such behavior doesn’t make much sense. DNS isn’t by definition reliable. Nginx should treat such errors as transient and keep retrying, while bringing up other unaffected servers.

With current behavior, if a server suddenly reboots, nginx may fail to come online, resulting in downtime longer than necessary—until someone starts it manually."	defect	closed	major		nginx-core	1.7.x	wontfix			any, but particularly Linux with systemd	1.7.9