ntpdate start up sequence

[Scott Kitterman]

On Wednesday 21 June 2006 15:43, Tom Smith wrote:
> Ubuntu 5.10
> ntpdate 4.2.0a
>
> I'm setting up a DNS server that will use itself for name resolution,
> versus using another server. This created a problem with ntpdate.
>
> ntpdate starts from /etc/rcS.d, which loads before bind9 or any other
> non-system services. Because of this, ntpdate is unable to locate the
> time server that it's looking for (since DNS isn't started when it loads).
>
> I haven't been able to find a "clean" way of rectifying this problem (by
> clean, I mean something that won't be undone upon an update, upgrade, or
> reinstall of that service).
>
> Can anyone offer any suggestions for working around this problem?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!

One thing that comes to mind is to list the NTP server by IP address.

Scott K