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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc3) Gecko/20020523 Description of problem: hostnames are permitted in the ntp.conf and step-tickers files, but unless IP addresses are used in /etc/ntp/step-tickers, ntpd will fail when the computer is started, because named is not yet running. If ntpd is restarted after the computer is up, it is successful. The ntpd script should start before the named script. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.create /etc/ntp/step-tickers with one line: tick.usno.navy.mil 2.do a "service ntpd restart" (see that it successfully starts) 3.reboot computer, and watch as ntpd tries to start, it will indicate that it failed. Actual Results: ntpd will fail when the computer boots, but if you restart ntpd using the service command it will start OK. Expected Results: ntpd should have started Additional info: If step-tickers has an IP address instead of a host name, it will start properly when the computer starts. The named service should start before the ntpd service to correct this problem.
See also bug 46464. Also, I think in your first paragraph, you mean that named should start before ntpd, correct?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 46464 ***