Comment 44 for bug 114505

re tampering :) Know how you feel.

Because of this I feel it is better to fix the problem at source (pun intended!) and have raised #288914 [ https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/288914 ] to try to prompt discussions. When I get a chance I will d/l the source and fix it properly....but im a couple of months away of being able to fit that into my workload.

The question I have yet to resolve is *what* is pulling NTPD up prior to S15bind9 being executed (and I reckon it happens more than once!).

If NTP worked as I suggested in 288914 then all this messing about in dhcp scripts, ifup scripts etc would completely disappear and we can stick with just executing ntpd once from S23ntp quite happily - or even earlier if desired.