From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 18 18:37:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4077D1065672 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:37:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danallen46@airwired.net) Received: from mail.utahbroadband.com (mail.utahbroadband.com [204.14.20.91]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 049DA8FC1B for ; Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:37:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 18398 invoked by uid 89); 18 Dec 2010 18:37:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.18?) (danallen46@airwired.net@66.29.174.6) by mail.utahbroadband.com with ESMTPA; 18 Dec 2010 18:37:22 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1082) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Dan Allen In-Reply-To: <20101215004712.GA56065@icarus.home.lan> Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 11:37:21 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: References: <20101215004712.GA56065@icarus.home.lan> To: Jeremy Chadwick X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1082) Cc: dougb@freebsd.org, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List Subject: Re: ntpd fails on boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 18:37:24 -0000 On 14 Dec 2010, at 5:47 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Anyway, many people are using the below with success. Sorry to say that netwait did NOT in the end fix the problem. I however discovered that if I put synchronous_dhclient="YES" into my /etc/rc.conf file, that over many days & reboots now has been delivering reliable networking such that ntpd always works. Thanks again to everyone for their help. Dan