On Sun, 22 Mar 2020 at 16:33, Chris Green cl@isbd.net wrote:
Yes, but 'host debian.pool.ntp.org' shouldn't just return nothing should it?
To my knowledge there's no requirement that higher level domains should resolve. (For example, that would imply that you should be able to resolve "org" before you can resolve "ntp.org".)
It's an interesting feature of the configuration but I think it's a red herring as far as my ntpd's inability to resolve 1.debian.pool.ntp.org is concerned.