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
