David Corbin wrote: >When I boot my latpop, ntpdate doesn't work. It fails saying there is a >"temporary failure in name resolution" it cannot lookup pool.ntp.org . >After my system finishes booting, "/etc/init.d/ntp-client start" works fine. >The script is running nearly last from the output, and after a few other >'network related' scripts (exim, mysql, lisa), so I don't *think* it's >'running too early'. > >When I look through the init.d scripts, there are a handful that 'use dns', >but no one seems to provide it. I'm not sure this is the cause, but I'd like >to understand why no one provides it. More important though is fixing it so >ntpdate works on boot. > > > Hi,
I have the same problem here. Temporarily what I did was after the machine has booted up, I run the ntp-client script by hand as root. Nothing elegant there. However, evidently, the script _is_ running to early, definitely earlier than your network setup. Once resolv.conf is set up properly and the nameservers in there are reachable, your error would go away. I am on home ADSL and I realise that although my resolv.conf is static [since their DNS are fixed], I should still run ntp-client _after_ the link to DNSes is up [via my USB modem]. I am yet to ensure that this script starts after my network config script start. My netconfig script is actually hand crafted - since my modem is unsupported sort of. So I had put that script last in the startup order. Hence my problem - something similar may be happening at your end. "use dns" probably refers to DNS server [running on your local host - which is not the case with most of us, as we don't run DNSes of our own] HTH, Rohit -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
