Bug#1003931: systemd-timesyncd: please set default NTP servers in stock configuration

[Ansgar]

tag 1003931 + moreinfo
thanks

On Tue, 2022-01-18 at 11:40 +0200, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> The stock configuration file that ships with systemd-timesyncd has
> all options commented out.

That should be fine.

> Additionally, it doesn't set any default NTP server. This essentially
> means that Debian ships a package that will not sync to anything by
> default.

Have you verified this is the case?

timesyncd should use either NTP servers obtained from DHCP or such or
use the built-in FallbackNTP if no other FallbackNTP is specified in
timesyncd.conf:

+---
| FallbackNTP=
| [...] If this option is not given, a compiled-in list of NTP servers
| is used.
+---[ man:timesyncd.conf(5) ]

Ansgar