Public bug reported:

# sntp abc
sntp 4.2.8p10@1.3728-o (1)
kod_init_kod_db(): Cannot open KoD db file /var/db/ntp-kod: No such file or 
directory
abc lookup error Temporary failure in name resolution

echo $?
0


from the manpage for sntp:

EXIT STATUS
     One of the following exit values will be returned:

     0  (EXIT_SUCCESS)
                   Successful program execution.

     1  (EXIT_FAILURE)
                   The operation failed or the command syntax was not valid.

     66  (EX_NOINPUT)
                   A specified configuration file could not be loaded.

     70  (EX_SOFTWARE)
                   libopts had an internal operational error.  Please report it 
to auto‐
                   gen-us...@lists.sourceforge.net.  Thank you.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: sntp 1:4.2.8p10+dfsg-5ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed May 23 19:53:29 2018
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ntp
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.conffile..etc.ntp.conf: [modified]
mtime.conffile..etc.ntp.conf: 2018-05-23T19:24:22.724839

** Affects: ntp (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug bionic uec-images

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  sntp return code is not EXIT_FAILURE when hostname query is not
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