[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#886174: ntpdate: On ifup, ntpdate always fails if using a local DNS server.

[Nye Liu]

Package: ntpdate
Version: 1:4.2.8p10+dfsg-5
Severity: important

Similar to https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=766838

If a local DNS service is used, ntpdate when run from ifup will always fail,
since the BIND named server is not started until well after network interfaces are
configured and brought up.

There should be an option to

1) disable calling ntpdate from ifup entirely

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=823533

2) allow a one shot ntpdate to run AFTER BIND named is started

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages ntpdate depends on:
ii  dpkg       1.19.0.4
ii  libc6      2.25-6
ii  libssl1.1  1.1.0g-2
ii  netbase    5.4

ntpdate recommends no packages.

ntpdate suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/ntpdate [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/default/ntpdate'
/etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ntpdate [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ntpdate'
/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/ntpdate [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/ntpdate'
/etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate'

-- no debconf information