From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 Description of problem: /etc/rc.d/init.d/ntpd is setup to start as S26ntpd. Nameservice, however, is not running at that time (S55named). This is a problem. Most public NTP servers request (strongly) that you specify them by name and not IP address. If you do this on a system that uses a local nameserver then NTP startup will fail. This is especially problematic because most networks prefer to put their reference time server on their DNS server ... which is the exact circumstances to create this problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. create an ntp.conf that uses names rather than IP addrs in "server" commands 2. rm /etc/resolv.conf (which causes resolve to default to 0.0.0.0) 3. reboot system 4. watch ntp startup puke Additional info:
fixed in 4.1.0b-1 and later