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

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 11:22:19PM +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 11:15:35PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> 
> HI,
> 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > As far as I know, this only works with the "pool" command, not
> > with any of the server commands.
> 
> Don't think so, I've tested in on Jessie which still uses "server" in
> the default configuration. Worked just fine.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, without changing any
configuration. I think the case that fails is waiting a very long
time to bring up the network.


Kurt