[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#627343: Improved Workaround for DHCP lease NTP servers with NetworkManager

[Mike]

ste-fan,

Glad to see someone else is, again, trying to get this resolved.

I think, though that any solution involving ntpdate is dead-on-arrival, since
ntpdate is no longer developed upstream and is deprecated in favor of
"ntpd -g -q".

As to Jan's objection to running an NTP daemon on a DHCP client: Concerns
about network-facing services should be addressed with proper firewalling,
part of any correct system installation.  And running an NTP client
continuously makes perfect sense to me, since client machines often need
their clocks closely synchronized to their servers.  So I see no reason to
force the "-q" option onto ntpd.  And "-g" is already used by default.

I agree with Michael that this is a duplicate of http://bugs.debian.org/537358
(and should be marked as such).

I still don't understand why NM upstream replaced the default call to
/sbin/dhclient-scipt with nm-dhcp-client.action, and all the D-bus stuff.
Some enlightenment there would be appreciated.

I haven't converged on my solution yet, but it so far appears to involve
installing ntp, commenting out the "server" lines in /etc/ntp.conf, and
probably using the script from bug 537358.