Bug#417118: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#417118: ntpdate: Start sequence problem for some network setups

Tue Apr 3 14:27:06 UTC 2007

Am Sonntag, 1. April 2007 18:13 schrieb Lupe Christoph:
> The network is started by /etc/rc0.d/S35networking, which starts ntpdate
> when eth0 becomes "up". At that time, the local nameserver is not yet
> available, it is started by /etc/rc[2345].d/S15bind9. ntpdate cannot
> resolve the names of the NTP servers and fails.

That is really a more general problem: Most network services need name 
service, so whatever script is run when a network interface comes up will 
fail.