Quoting richard lucassen (mailinglists@???):
> When you have no network on the machine ntp notes that there is no
> network, then it stops AFAIK. But if you have a wrong resolv.conf or
> something like that you get the above mentioned timeouts.
Really? 'Wrong resolv.conf or something like that'?
There shouldn't IMO be broken DNS any more on modern networked *ix
hosts. Run a local recursive resolver and list 127.0.0.1 as the first
resolv.conf entry. It's 2016, guys.
Unbound:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Network_Other/dns-servers.html#unbound
Deadwood:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Network_Other/dns-servers.html#deadwood
dnscache:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Network_Other/dns-servers.html#debian-djbdns
PowerDNS Recursor:
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Network_Other/dns-servers.html#pdns-recursor
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