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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
