[Cerowrt-devel] DNSSEC & NTP Bootstrapping

Toke Høiland-Jørgensen toke at toke.dk
Sun Mar 23 08:20:09 EDT 2014


David Personette <dperson at gmail.com> writes:

> The simplest solution seems to be to cache a lookup of pool.ntp.org. It would
> only need to be used if the normal DNS target for ntpdate fails. Once time is
> set, we can update the cached values of the pool once again (if they've
> changed).

Hmm, I suppose a solution could be to create a script that queries
pool.ntp.org and stores it in /etc/hosts (or the dnsmasq config) as
'cached.pool.ntp.org' or similar, and then configure that as an NTP
server. And then have the script run periodically, and also at image
build time?

-Toke
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