Bug 837486

Summary:	ntpdate.service needs After=nss-lookup.target
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jordan Russell <jr-redhatbugs2>
Component:	ntp	Assignee:	Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	16	CC:	mlichvar, pertusus
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Description Jordan Russell 2012-07-04 05:24:18 UTC

Description of problem:
Currently, ntpdate.service is started before named.service during boot. When named is set up as the local DNS resolver, this causes ntpdate's first attempt to always fail with "can't find server" errors logged.

To ensure that named starts first, ntpdate.service needs:
After=nss-lookup.target

I suspect ntpd.service should include the same change (and it's missing After=network.target, too).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
ntp-4.2.6p4-1.fc16

Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2012-08-07 20:09:00 UTC

Should be fixed in ntp-4.2.6p5-5.fc18. Thanks.

The ntpd service doesn't always need network or DNS (e.g. with a reference clock) and it's better to start it early so the clock frequency offset is set from the drift file.