Re: ntpd vs ntpdate with no hardware clock

> On Jul 7, 2024, at 12:07 PM, Marcin Cieslak <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 7 Jul 2024, Ronald Klop wrote:
> 
>> I created fakertc for my rpi4. https://www.freshports.org/sysutils/fakertc/
>> 
>> Saves the time on shutdown and sets it back early at boot.
>> 
>> Plus I use ntpdate together with ntpd. Works fine.
> 
> I have question here:
> 
> Rrecently I have removed an RTC battery
> from my amd64 system and it turned out
> that ntpd couldn't do anything to set the time
> because the local DNS resolver failed
> (I presume it was dnssec failure).
> 
> What is the most elegant solution to
> cope with such a race condition?
> (DNS needs time, setting time needs DNS)

I ran into this on an old MBP. See
https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/when-named-stops-working-on-reboot-after-a-long-power-out.93673/

I don't have a solution. May be use ntpdate
with a dotted address instead of a dns name
for an ntp server?