how to stop synchroniziing the clock from internet at startup

[DavidJonesEllis]

For what it's worth, I was unable to get Ubuntu Server 5.1 (Breezy
Badger) to synchronize with ntp.ubuntulinux.org, even long after bootup
time using:

sudo ntpdate ntp.ubuntulinux.org

However, I pinged ntp.ubunulinux.org and found the site's IP address
(82.211.81.145 at the time of writing) and successfully synchronized
with:

sudo ntpdate 82.211.81.145

I then altered a line in the file /etc/default/ntpdate from:

NTPSERVERS="ntp.ubuntulinux.org"

to:

NTPSERVERS="82.211.81.145"

and ubuntu has synchronized at bootup time correctly ever since.

It is not an ideal solution as it is always possible that
ntp.ubuntulinux.org might move to a different IP address at some time
in the future, but I guess, when that happens, I can just ping the site
again and update /etc/default/ntpdate to the new value.

Has anyone managed to get sudo ntpdate ntp.ubuntulinux.org to work? Is
it just me that has this particular issue?


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DavidJonesEllis