domainname setting for /etc/hosts defined network

[gene1934]

I think I have everything setup, nm even says its connected, but isn't. With about 15 entries in FQDN format in the /etc/hosts file, and the hostname set to whats before the first dot of one of the entries, ip a still doesn't show an ipv4 address. and ip r is an empty return. What all do I need to set?, it all looks kosher to me.

[gene1934]

I found the /etc/default/networking, filled in the blanks, and fixed that now chrony is not working and the clock thinks it is feb 13th.

Because I have quite a few machines, I setup an ntpsec server as a stratum 2 ntp server and all the rest of my network syncs to that.  That was done by listing this machine instead of all the pool entry's in chrony.conf, except this time I put the entry in a sources.d/file.like it says in the README in that dir. Is that known not to work?