[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#408219: ntpd giving up on eth0 before it is initialized

[Aleksi Suhonen]

Hello,

I ran into this problem with eth1, my WLAN card. I found that
by moving the script from /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d to
/etc/dhcp3/dhclient-exit-hooks.d it is now executed at the
correct phase, after the interface has been given addresses.

It would also be nice, if there was a way to specify "persistent"
ntp servers, I.e. that there were some server/peer lines that
wouldn't be stripped when forming /etc/ntp.conf.dhcp.

For example:

      sed -r -e '/persistent/{;n;n;};/^ *(server|peer).*$/d' $NTP_CONF

Which would always leave lines following the string "persistent" alone:

 # the following server should stay in the conf file persistently:
  server my.globally.available.ntp.server
 # the following server should be stripped:
  server strippable.ntp.server

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	Aleksi Suhonen

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