Ntp seems to go out of it's way to not do a wildcard bind to port 123. It is only binding to port 123 for each interface. If the interface is not up it does not get bound to. This is from starting ntp after eth0 is up.
Mar 9 06:36:46 fred ntpd[2276]: Listening on interface wildcard, 0.0.0.0#123 Disabled Mar 9 06:36:46 fred ntpd[2276]: Listening on interface lo, 127.0.0.1#123 Enabled Mar 9 06:36:46 fred ntpd[2276]: Listening on interface eth0, 172.16.31.2#123 Enabled I started another machine and let it go for 30 minutes and no difference. Ntp does not change. Mar 9 07:52:34 wilma ntpd[5034]: ntpd [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Mar 7 20:43:30 UTC 2007 (1) Mar 9 07:52:34 wilma ntpd[5035]: precision = 1.000 usec Mar 9 07:52:34 wilma ntpd[5035]: Listening on interface wildcard, 0.0.0.0#123 Disabled Mar 9 07:52:34 wilma ntpd[5035]: Listening on interface wildcard, ::#123 Disabled Mar 9 07:52:34 wilma ntpd[5035]: Listening on interface lo, ::1#123 Enabled Mar 9 07:52:34 wilma ntpd[5035]: Listening on interface lo, 127.0.0.1#123 Enabled Mar 9 07:52:34 wilma ntpd[5035]: kernel time sync status 0040 Mar 9 07:52:34 wilma ntpd[5035]: frequency initialized -8.102 PPM from /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift By 8:22 no change. -- ntp starts before the network is up in feisty https://launchpad.net/bugs/90267 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
