[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#596487: Bug#596487: ntp: initscript should depend on $named

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:34:57AM +1200, Francois Marier wrote:
> On 2010-09-12 at 23:40:08, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > The other 2 common problem are:
> > - Having libnss-mdns installed (#561622)
> 
> Ah, it might be that one. I'll try removing it. Thanks for the pointer.
> 
> In any case, do you think that ntp should depend on named though? I would
> assume that most people are using hostnames for their ntp servers and not IP
> addresses, but I do see that it's possible to run ntp and not rely on
> DNS. In which case the downside of that extra dependency would be that ntp
> gets started a bit later than necessary.

Not everybody runs named, so we can't depend on it.  I think there
is also a way to say "start it before us if it's available".

But ntp can perfectly start without the nameserver working.  You
might not have a network connection at the time you boot.  ntpd
will start a slave process to do the resolving in that case, and
so can resolv it later.


Kurt