-------- Ursprungligt meddelande -------- Den 2025-06-26 13:23, Martin Husemann <mar...@duskware.de> skrev:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 11:40:15AM +0000, pin wrote: > > Hi, > > > > NetBSD 10.98.14 amd64 since a month or so ago, I'm getting the following > on every boot: > > > > [...] > > Setting date via ntp. > > Exiting, name server cannot be used: Temporary failure in name resolution > (2)16 Jun 21:23:49 ntpdate[1082]: name server cannot be used: Temporary > failure in name resolution (2) > > /etc/rc.d/ntpdate exited with code 1 > > [...] > > > > ntp is running by the time I get to X > > ntpdate runs too early while your DNS server is not yet reachable or (if > you use DHCP) your /etc/resolv.conf has not been filled. > > A very simple workaround is to set ntpdate=NO and instead add > > ntpd_flags="-g" > > which tells ntpd to do basically the same as ntpdate, but a bit slower and > with more retries. Downside is that your clock may not be exact right after > booting (it will need a minute or so after the NTP servers are reachable). > > On machines that have a working battery buffered clock this is usually > fine and will make no noticable difference. > > Martin Thanks! As things are working fine once the system reaches an X-session, I'll leave it for now. Only brought it up since this only started a month or so ago and I didn't change my set-up, other than updating along HEAD.
