[Bug 114505] Re: ntp brought up before network is ready; fails not resolve any ip or host names; ntp does not recover

[J Carerra]

It is illuminating to look at syslog in an editor/viewer just after a
boot and search for 'ntp.'  That will show you the ntpd and ntpdate
calls--easily showing if multiple attempts are happening.  You can also
see if ntpd is making associations, look to see if interfaces are up, if
dhcp addresses have been assigned before ntp is trying to start, and if
ntpdate ran before ntpd.

Also, I have thought that the fix for this should also add the 'write to
hardware switch' to ntpdate IF AND ONLY IF ntpdate is successful. This
will avoid the rare but possible case of the machine clock being more
than 1000 secs wrong from actual, causing ntpd to go silent without
notification (other than logging).

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ntp brought up before network is ready; fails not resolve any ip or host names; ntp does not recover
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