ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 19, Issue 34

[Robert Slade]

On Sun, 2006-03-05 at 22:04 +0530, Arjun Shankar wrote:
> > On Sat, 4 Mar 2006 22:13, felix wrote:
> > > hi,how to stop synchronizing the clock from Internet at startup?
> > > i use ubuntu 5.10.
> > > thank you!
> >
> > sudo /usr/sbin/update-rc.d -f ntpdate remove
> >
> > ...if you have a working Internet connection at boot, AND you configured
> > your timezone correctly - WHY would you want to disable this feature?
> > <shrug> - you asked how to stop it, well now you know :)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > James
> 
> I have a related problem. I access the internet through a squid proxy,
> and have no nameserver available. The NTP sync fails each time. Also,
> the only port that the proxy allows me to connect to is the known port
> for http. Is there a way around this, or I should just disable the
> sync on boot?
> 
> Arjun Shankar

You could change ntp.ubuntu.coom for it's IP address 82.211.81.145
but ntp does use a different port to http so you maybe stuck.

Rob