On Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 10:59:07PM +0200, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible > > On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 09:16:05AM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > > This is a successor of bug #571469. All is said there. NTP needs running > > DNS when it starts. Please add $named to Required-Start in init script. > > > > Funny thing, reportbug does include my changed init.d script below but > > not the changed part: > > # 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.
As far as I know, this only works with the "pool" command, not with any of the server commands. Kurt
