Hi,
I have a certain escalation where the customer doesn't have NTP working
right because it cannot resolve host names. This happens because the DNS
service is not necessarily started before the NTP service, leaving it
unable to resolve hostnames. I have tried to fix this by adding a
dependency on name-services (in ntp.xml) as follows :
<dependency name='name-services'
grouping='require_any'
restart_on='error'
type='service'>
<service_fmri value='svc:/milestone/name-services' />
</dependency>
While reviewing this fix, Brian suggested that in the future, many
customers will want to deploy DNSSEC which requires NTP to be running
before the service is initialized. As an alternative, he suggests that
we either
- have two services or
- have the start method query SMF for the status of the milestones -
this alternative has the advantage of letting us look at the conf file
and do the right thing dynamically.
Any thoughts from the experts on this ?
Thanks for your time,
Shwetha
