Hi, I experience the same problem on several lenny installations. For some reason my WPA-PSK wlan takes a bit too long to come up. The ntpd always gives up before the network is available. The syslog shows
Apr 1 23:16:54 gromit ntpd[3352]: ntpd 4.2....@1.1520-o Sun Nov 22 17:34:54 UTC 2009 (1) Apr 1 23:16:54 gromit ntpd[3353]: precision = 1.000 usec Apr 1 23:16:54 gromit ntpd[3353]: Listening on interface #0 wildcard, 0.0.0.0#123 Disabled Apr 1 23:16:54 gromit ntpd[3353]: Listening on interface #1 wildcard, ::#123 Disabled Apr 1 23:16:54 gromit ntpd[3353]: Listening on interface #2 lo, ::1#123 Enabled Apr 1 23:16:54 gromit ntpd[3353]: Listening on interface #3 lo, 127.0.0.1#123 Enabled Apr 1 23:16:54 gromit ntpd[3353]: kernel time sync status 0040 Apr 1 23:16:54 gromit ntpd[3353]: frequency initialized 9.072 PPM from /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift Apr 1 23:16:54 gromit kernel: [ 20.321199] warning: `ntpd' uses 32-bit capabilities (legacy support in use) Apr 1 23:16:56 gromit ntpd_initres[3365]: host name not found: 0.debian.pool.ntp.org Apr 1 23:16:56 gromit ntpd_initres[3365]: couldn't resolve `0.debian.pool.ntp.org', giving up on it Apr 1 23:16:56 gromit ntpd_initres[3365]: host name not found: 1.debian.pool.ntp.org Apr 1 23:16:56 gromit ntpd_initres[3365]: couldn't resolve `1.debian.pool.ntp.org', giving up on it Apr 1 23:16:56 gromit ntpd_initres[3365]: host name not found: 2.debian.pool.ntp.org Apr 1 23:16:56 gromit ntpd_initres[3365]: couldn't resolve `2.debian.pool.ntp.org', giving up on it Apr 1 23:16:56 gromit ntpd_initres[3365]: host name not found: 3.debian.pool.ntp.org Apr 1 23:16:56 gromit ntpd_initres[3365]: couldn't resolve `3.debian.pool.ntp.org', giving up on it And after that the wlan comes up: Apr 1 23:16:56 gromit kernel: [ 22.594404] wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0 Apr 1 23:16:56 gromit kernel: [ 22.594404] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:24:01:21:02:e6 Apr 1 23:16:56 gromit kernel: [ 22.595047] wlan0: RX authentication from 00:24:01:21:02:e6 (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0) Apr 1 23:16:56 gromit kernel: [ 22.595047] wlan0: authenticated Apr 1 23:16:56 gromit kernel: [ 22.595047] wlan0: associate with AP 00:24:01:21:02:e6 Apr 1 23:16:56 gromit kernel: [ 22.598780] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:24:01:21:02:e6 (capab=0xc31 status=0 aid=1) Apr 1 23:16:56 gromit kernel: [ 22.598780] wlan0: associated Apr 1 23:16:56 gromit kernel: [ 22.598780] wlan0: switched to short barker preamble (BSSID=00:24:01:21:02:e6) Apr 1 23:16:56 gromit kernel: [ 22.598780] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready Apr 1 23:17:05 gromit dhclient: bound to 192.168.0.101 -- renewal in 281137 seconds. Later ntpd seems to notice the new interface Apr 1 23:21:55 gromit ntpd[3353]: Listening on interface #4 wlan0, fe80::218:deff:fe7b:3ae9#123 Enabled Apr 1 23:21:55 gromit ntpd[3353]: Listening on interface #5 wlan0, 192.168.0.101#123 Enabled however I still get gromit ~ 9> date; ntpq -p Thu Apr 1 23:28:51 CEST 2010 No association ID's returned -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages ntp depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii libc6 2.7-18lenny2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcap1 1:1.10-14 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libedit2 2.11~20080614-1 BSD editline and history libraries ii libncurses5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-15+lenny6 SSL shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii netbase 4.34 Basic TCP/IP networking system Versions of packages ntp recommends: ii perl 5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages ntp suggests: pn ntp-doc <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information Bye, Hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org