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ntp package

  1. Bug #1801183
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1801183

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Andrew Schulman (z-ubuntuone-andrex) wrote :

OK, looking in /var/log/syslog, I see these entries from this morning's boot:

Nov 1 06:27:47 helium ntpd[1212]: ntpd 4.2.8p10@1.3728-o (1): Starting
Nov 1 06:27:47 helium ntpd[1212]: Command line: /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -4g -u 125:135
Nov 1 06:27:47 helium ntpd[1243]: proto: precision = 0.042 usec (-24)
Nov 1 06:27:47 helium ntpd[1243]: restrict: ignoring line 11, address/host 'louie.udel.edu' unusable.
Nov 1 06:27:47 helium ntpd[1243]: restrict: ignoring line 12, address/host 'clock.psu.edu' unusable.
Nov 1 06:27:47 helium ntpd[1243]: restrict: ignoring line 13, address/host 'ntp-2.vt.edu' unusable.
Nov 1 06:27:47 helium ntpd[1243]: restrict: ignoring line 14, address/host 'ntp0.cornell.edu' unusable.
Nov 1 06:27:47 helium ntpd[1243]: Listen and drop on 0 v4wildcard 0.0.0.0:123
Nov 1 06:27:47 helium ntpd[1243]: Listen normally on 1 lo 127.0.0.1:123
Nov 1 06:27:47 helium ntpd[1243]: Listening on routing socket on fd #18 for interface updates
Nov 1 06:27:52 helium ntpd[1243]: Listen normally on 2 eth0 192.168.1.2:123
Nov 1 06:27:52 helium ntpd[1243]: new interface(s) found: waking up resolver
Nov 1 06:33:40 helium ntpd[1243]: ntpd exiting on signal 15 (Terminated)
Nov 1 06:33:40 helium ntpd[1243]: 128.118.25.3 local addr 192.168.1.2 -> <null>
Nov 1 06:33:40 helium ntpd[1243]: 198.82.247.71 local addr 192.168.1.2 -> <null>
Nov 1 06:33:40 helium ntpd[1243]: 132.236.56.250 local addr 192.168.1.2 -> <null>
Nov 1 06:33:40 helium ntpd[3473]: ntpd 4.2.8p10@1.3728-o (1): Starting
Nov 1 06:33:40 helium ntpd[3473]: Command line: /usr/sbin/ntpd -p /var/run/ntpd.pid -4g -u 125:135
Nov 1 06:33:40 helium ntpd[3476]: proto: precision = 0.058 usec (-24)
Nov 1 06:33:40 helium ntpd[3476]: Listen and drop on 0 v4wildcard 0.0.0.0:123
Nov 1 06:33:40 helium ntpd[3476]: Listen normally on 1 lo 127.0.0.1:123
Nov 1 06:33:40 helium ntpd[3476]: Listen normally on 2 eth0 192.168.1.2:123
Nov 1 06:33:40 helium ntpd[3476]: Listening on routing socket on fd #19 for interface updates

So ntpd is at first ignoring all of the 'restrict' commands because the hostnames are 'unusable'. Why would that be? Is ntpd trying to start before the external network interface is up?