Yu Watanabe c8e5be587d timesyncd: resolve NTP hostnames through resolved's varlink interface (#43380)
With DNSSEC on, resolved can't validate anything until the clock is
correct,
and without an RTC the only thing that fixes the clock is talking to the
NTP servers we're trying to resolve.

On glibc the timesyncd unit sets SYSTEMD_NSS_RESOLVE_VALIDATE=0 and
nss-resolve turns that into a per-query flag, which breaks the
chicken/egg. musl and systems not using nss-resolve have no NSS, so
nothing
reads it there and we're stuck.

So talk to resolved directly when it's there, and pass
SD_RESOLVED_NO_VALIDATE until we've synced the clock ourselves. Lookups
after that are validated normally, which is better than what we get from
nss. If resolved isn't around we keep using getaddrinfo().

Tested on musl in qemu with the RTC set to 2020 and DNSSEC=yes.
timesyncd syncs when it couldn't before, while `resolvectl query` still
fails with signature-expired, so the "relaxation" is scoped to only
timesyncd.
Once the clock is synced subsequent timesyncd resolver queries no longer
include the flag to disable validation.

fixes #20235
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