Nucleus time synchronization craziness

My nucleus+ is making an awful lot of queries to time.nist.gov. It does that every couple of seconds. Probably because the domain doesn’t resolve to an ip address.

Here’s the query to Cloudflare:

$ nslookup time.nist.gov - 1.1.1.1
Server:		1.1.1.1
Address:	1.1.1.1#53

** server can't find time.nist.gov: SERVFAIL

And here’s the query to Google:

$ nslookup time.nist.gov - 8.8.8.8
Server:		8.8.8.8
Address:	8.8.8.8#53

** server can't find time.nist.gov: SERVFAIL

Hi @Nepherte,

I’m going to chat with the team about this, I’ll be sure to let you know when I receive their feedback.

As of my understanding of nslookup, your usage is wrong. Should be

$ nslookup time.nist.gov 1.1.1.1

if you want to use a specific name server to resolve time.nist.gov. This works for me and returns a random address out of the range of NIST time servers.

Both commands should work. That being said, the command I posted now resolves to an IP. So it must have been an outage upstream. (the list of servers you linked to was also down at the time).

Maybe it’s better to preconfigure the Nucleus(+) OS to use time severs from the pool.ntp.org project. There are plenty of servers available from all around the world.

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