Hello,
I still see weird behavior in the syslog (deb8.8): The first call of ntpdate is before networking is done and ifup starts. The second and third call are reasonable though. Jun 8 13:30:28 magento systemd[1]: Starting system-ifup.slice. Jun 8 13:30:28 magento systemd[1]: Created slice system-ifup.slice. Jun 8 13:30:28 magento keyboard-setup[200]: Setting preliminary keymap...done. Jun 8 13:30:28 magento systemd[1]: Started LSB: Set preliminary keymap. Jun 8 13:30:28 magento systemd[1]: Starting Remount Root and Kernel File Systems... Jun 8 13:30:28 magento systemd[1]: Started Remount Root and Kernel File Systems. Jun 8 13:30:28 magento systemd[1]: Started Various fixups to make systemd work better on Debian. Jun 8 13:30:28 magento systemd[1]: Starting Load/Save Random Seed... Jun 8 13:30:28 magento systemd[1]: Starting Local File Systems (Pre). [.] Jun 8 13:30:28 magento ntpdate[423]: Can't find host 0.debian.pool.ntp.org: Name or service not known (-2) Jun 8 13:30:28 magento ntpdate[423]: Can't find host 1.debian.pool.ntp.org: Name or service not known (-2) Jun 8 13:30:28 magento ntpdate[423]: Can't find host 2.debian.pool.ntp.org: Name or service not known (-2) Jun 8 13:30:28 magento ntpdate[423]: Can't find host 3.debian.pool.ntp.org: Name or service not known (-2) Jun 8 13:30:28 magento ntpdate[423]: no servers can be used, exiting Jun 8 13:30:28 magento networking[284]: Configuring network interfaces...done. Jun 8 13:30:28 magento systemd[1]: Started LSB: Raise network interfaces.. Jun 8 13:30:28 magento systemd[1]: Starting ifup for eth0... Jun 8 13:30:28 magento systemd[1]: Started ifup for eth0. Jun 8 13:30:28 magento systemd[1]: Starting Network. Jun 8 13:30:28 magento systemd[1]: Reached target Network. Jun 8 13:30:28 magento systemd[1]: Starting Network is Online. Jun 8 13:30:28 magento systemd[1]: Reached target Network is Online. Jun 8 13:30:28 magento systemd[1]: Starting LSB: RPC portmapper replacement... Jun 8 13:30:28 magento dhclient: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.3.1 Jun 8 13:30:28 magento dhclient: Copyright 2004-2014 Internet Systems Consortium. Jun 8 13:30:28 magento dhclient: All rights reserved. Jun 8 13:30:28 magento dhclient: For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Jun 8 13:30:28 magento dhclient: Jun 8 13:30:28 magento ifup[436]: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.3.1 Jun 8 13:30:28 magento ifup[436]: Copyright 2004-2014 Internet Systems Consortium. Jun 8 13:30:28 magento ifup[436]: All rights reserved. Jun 8 13:30:28 magento ifup[436]: For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/ Jun 8 13:30:28 magento rpcbind[437]: Starting rpcbind daemon.... [.] Jun 8 13:30:48 magento dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.161 -- renewal in 1242771 seconds. Jun 8 13:30:48 magento ifup[436]: bound to 192.168.1.161 -- renewal in 1242771 seconds. Jun 8 13:30:48 magento systemd[1]: Reloading OpenBSD Secure Shell server. Jun 8 13:30:48 magento systemd[1]: Reloaded OpenBSD Secure Shell server. Jun 8 13:30:50 magento ifup[436]: Waiting for DAD... Done Jun 8 13:30:50 magento systemd[1]: Reloading OpenBSD Secure Shell server. Jun 8 13:30:50 magento systemd[1]: Reloaded OpenBSD Secure Shell server. Jun 8 13:30:38 magento ntpdate[997]: step time server 213.95.200.107 offset -19.254532 sec Jun 8 13:30:38 magento systemd[1]: Time has been changed [.] Jun 8 13:30:55 magento ntpdate[1433]: step time server 213.95.200.107 offset 0.000554 sec Jun 8 13:30:55 magento systemd[1]: Time has been changed