On Sun, 14 Aug 2016 17:36:23 -0500
Nate Bargmann <n0nb@???> wrote:

> > When you install a new machine? Or whenever you boot and there is a
> > network problem, you will have to wait until ntp times out before
> > you can do anything. Normally it doesn't bother, but when you're
> > mucking about with machines you can run into this problem.
>
> Interesting.
>
> I've done plenty of installs or boots without a network and don't
> recall ntp blocking the system startup, at least on Debian and
> derivatives. I run it on all my computers.

When you have no network on the machine ntp notes that there is no
network, then it stops AFAIK. But if you have a wrong resolv.conf or
something like that you get the above mentioned timeouts.

Anyway, I think OpenNTP is a nice replacement although I have very
little experience with it.

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