From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 Description of problem: In the script /sbin/dhclient-script that comes with the dhclient package, the ntp.conf file that it creates is not sufficient for ntp to work correctly. The script puts the list of servers into the ntp.conf file, but fails to add a restrict line for each such server. With the config line restrict default ignore that gets put in at the beginning of the ntp.conf file, this means that any info from the servers gets ignored. I have attached a short patch which should fix this. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): dhcp-3.0pl1-15 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run the dhclient program to get an IP address for an interface. Make certain that the DHCP server is providing an ntp-server. Otherwise, you won't get the ntp.conf file. 2. Look at the resulting /etc/ntp.conf file. You should see the following three lines somewhere in the file: restrict default ignore restrict 127.0.0.1 server $ntp_server But there will be no restrict line for each of the server lines. This essentially disables them. Additional info:
Created attachment 90633 [details] proposed patch for /sbin/dhclient-script
This fix is already available on RawHide and will be in next version of Red Hat.