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ntp package

  1. Bug #114505
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 114505

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Thomas Sprinkmeier (thomas-sprinkmeier-15) wrote : Re: ntp is being brought up before network is ready, causing ntp to not resolve any ip or host names and it appears ntp does not recover

"No Servers" means that the DHCP server didn't pass on any NTP servers and/or DHCP client doesn't care about them.

Check your lease (/var/lib/dhcp3/dhclient.eth0.leases), does it mention "option ntp-servers ....." ?

Check your dhclient configuration file, does it ask for NTP servers (by default it doesn't, see bug #74164)?

sprinkmeier@serenity:~$ diff --unified /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf__ORIG /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf
--- /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf__ORIG 2007-09-07 09:23:22.000000000 +0930
+++ /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf 2007-09-11 11:30:17.000000000 +0930
@@ -16,9 +16,17 @@
 #send dhcp-lease-time 3600;
 #supersede domain-name "fugue.com home.vix.com";
 #prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;
+# ask for NTP servers and the DNS search path
 request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, time-offset, routers,
        domain-name, domain-name-servers, host-name,
- netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope;
+ netbios-name-servers, netbios-scope,
+ ntp-servers,;
+
 #require subnet-mask, domain-name-servers;
 timeout 30;
 #retry 60;

The bind error seems to be IPv6 related. Are you using IPv6 or plain old IPv4?
What does "ifconfig" say?