Bug#791391: NFS mounts and other things fail if DHCP hasn't finished

[Daniel Pocock]

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On 04/07/15 21:10, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 04.07.2015 um 18:08 schrieb Daniel Pocock:
>> On 04/07/15 14:29, Michael Biebl wrote:
> 
>>> (*) As a side note: you might want to consider enabling 
>>> systemd-timesyncd.service (and removing ntpdate). timesyncd is
>>> a very lightweight NTP client.
>> 
>> 
>> Would this mean removing both the ntp and ntpdate packages?  They
>> are all configured to talk to an NTP server on 192.168.1.2
> 
> systemd-timesyncd is only a (S)NTP client, it doesn't provider the 
> server part. If you use NTP as a (local) NTP server,
> systemd-timesyncd can not replace. If you use NTP as a client only,
> you can uninstall both ntpdate and ntp and simply run
> 
> systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd.service systemctl start
> systemd-timesyncd.service
> 
> The default NTP servers are configured in 
> /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf. If you want to use your own, you can
> change the NTP= setting. See also man timesynd.conf.
> 
> systemd-timesyncd works so well, that we decided to enable it by
> default for stretch.
> 

I wonder if you could use DNS SRV records to automate the
configuration too?  e.g. trying to use the result of

DNS_DOMAIN=`domainname -d`
dig -t SRV _ntp._udp.${DNS_DOMAIN}

as the NTP server with no manual configuration.
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