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Bernd
Bernd

Reputation: 835

Stop timesyncd from polling hard coded Debian timeservers

The systemd-timesyncd daemon repeatedly tries to contact the following hard coded (compiled) time servers if neither an NTP server is specified manually nor one received via DHCP:

0.debian.pool.ntp.org
1.debian.pool.ntp.org
2.debian.pool.ntp.org
3.debian.pool.ntp.org

Since I'm operating behind a corporate proxy, it will never be successful to reach these servers. Is there a way to prevent this senseless polling (without recompilation)?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1148

Answers (2)

JonnyJD
JonnyJD

Reputation: 2643

You can (now) configure timesyncd to use another NTP server in /etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf:

NTP=your_corporate_internal_time_server

Most corporate networks have one of these, especially when blocking ntp traffic. It is usually something like time.corp_domain.com or ntp.corp_domain.com.

Upvotes: 2

Mark Stosberg
Mark Stosberg

Reputation: 13411

If you aren't allowed to contact any NTP servers to sync with, then disable the the service that does that:

 systemctl stop systemd-timesyncd
 systemctl disable systemd-timesyncd

The first command will stop the service immediately. The second will prevent it from being restarted on the next boot.

Upvotes: 1

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