Subject: Re: rc.d: time synchronization issues at boot time
To: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@crufty.net>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 03/16/2005 12:28:46
Simon J. Gerraty wrote:

> >Currently there is no explicit dependency ordering between
> >ntpdate and named, and the order in which they start is
> >non-determanistic, although generally it seems that named
> >is started before ntpdate.
> 
> I think it more likely that ntpdate depends on named than the 
> other way around.

Especially since our default ntp.conf lists names that need to be
resolved:

	server          0.pool.ntp.org
	server          1.pool.ntp.org
	server          2.pool.ntp.org

Simmon.
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