On Mon, Aug 01, 2016 at 03:53:29AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote: > First of all, thanks very much for the prompt reply! > > I'll try it again in sid and stretch, but it was there the last time I looked. > > The problem is not getting dhcpclient to give ntp servers. I've put hard > coded ipv4 addresses in /etc/default/ntpdate, so that's not it. > > The problem is that the network interface is not fully available when ntpdate > runs. I think this is because dhcpclient has not provided an IP address for > the interface yet. > > Here's a snatch from journalctl that shows the problem in jessie:
It's even saying that ntpdate is running before networking is even started. That makes no sense at all, and I have no idea what's starting it, but the only thing I know that should run it is /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate It seems to me that we get called too early. Kurt