[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#787404: ntp_intres.request: permission denied

[Klaus Ethgen]

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Hi,

Am Mo den  3. Apr 2017 um 21:59 schrieb Bernhard Schmidt:
> >    # Required-Start:  $network $remote_fs $syslog $named
> > 
> > In my setup, ntp and dns was start at the same runlevel. But as
> > "unbounce" comes lexically after "ntp", ntp was start first. With bind,
> > that could work as "bind" is lexically earlier in the list. However,
> > There is a dependency between ntp and dns so that dependency has to be
> > configured correctly.
> 
> I tried to reproduce this with current Jessie and the future Stretch
> release. As far as I can tell ntp handles this situation just fine.
> 
> When ntpd starts up and cannot resolve the servers it logs
> 
> ntpd[...]: Deferring DNS for 0.debian.pool.ntp.org 1
> ntpd_initres[...]: host name not found: 0.debian.pool.ntp.org
> 
> as soon as DNS and/or network connectivity is available again (a couple
> of minutes later) it logs
> 
> ntpd_initres[...]: DNS 0.debian.pool.ntp.org -> IP
> 
> and starts using this server.

Well, my experiences are that ntp is not very graceful when dealing with
not existing dns. It should handle that situation but fails to often.

On the other hand, that "$named" in the Required-Start solves the
problem and does no harm.

Regards
   Klaus
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