Saturday, December 05, 2020

Re: clock not set on boot

On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 08:33:33AM +0100, Otto Moerbeek wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 07:42:48PM -0700, Theo de Raadt wrote:
>
> > Andy Goblins <andygoblins@gmx.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Does ntpd need DNS to set the time? Because my reslov.conf points to
> > > 127.0.0.1 and unbound needs the time before it will work properly.
> >
> > A problem of your own creation.
> >
>
> We do attept to work even in this situation, by doing CD (checking
> disbaled) queries if needed. But in some cases this does not work,
> esepcially if the net and/or unbound is slow to start.
>
> e.g. I have one machine that nees a !sleep 1 in it's hostname.if
> file since the network interface it tto slow to startup and ntpd
> gives up doing the initial settime.
>
> Add ntpd_flags=-vv and show me the /var/log/daemon lines.
>
> -Otto
>

Ah, I see the info is already there in another post. This edgerouter
is a slow machine. You can try what I suggested, e.g. by putting a
sleep after unbound starts in /etc/rc.

But an easier solution is not to rely on a single resolved and add
another one in /etc/resolve.conf

-Otto

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