> critfs_require_network ought to be in the default rc.conf, even if it is
> commented out. I got snagged by this recently...

It is!

> IMHO, there shouldn't be any "gotchas" where you can turn on something that
> is in rc.conf and be slammed by something which doesn't exist there but
> should. Our rc.conf is nicely self-documented, leading to a lack of my
> randomly reading through the man page for it.

Sigh.   I'd like to change the default setting for
critfs_require_network to NO, but have generally met resistance when I
proposed this, so I'm not gonna.   If somebody else wants to do it, I
have no objections.

			       _MelloN_