On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 11:52 AM Ansgar <[email protected]> wrote: > > tag 1003931 + moreinfo > thanks > > On Tue, 2022-01-18 at 11:40 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > > The stock configuration file that ships with systemd-timesyncd has > > all options commented out. > > That should be fine. > > > Additionally, it doesn't set any default NTP server. This essentially > > means that Debian ships a package that will not sync to anything by > > default. > > Have you verified this is the case? > > timesyncd should use either NTP servers obtained from DHCP or such or > use the built-in FallbackNTP if no other FallbackNTP is specified in > timesyncd.conf:
/etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf makes no mention of this. There is no default content on the NTP line or mention that the fallback servers are compiled-in. > +--- > | FallbackNTP= > | [...] If this option is not given, a compiled-in list of NTP servers > | is used. > +---[ man:timesyncd.conf(5) ] Fair enough. I'd still suggest mentioning this in the configuration file's comments. Martin-Éric
