Tested and confirmed it's working now. There appears to be a behavioural change from 4.2.6 to 4.2.8 when using the local clock as a source.
In 4.2.6 the sync would be almost instantaneous while on 4.2.8 it will poll itself for a while before syncing as if it were an external resource. I was able to overcome this delay by setting the local source as preferred The new config in /etc/ntp.conf server 127.127.1.0 prefer fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 3 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ntp in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1558125 Title: ntpd doesn't synchronize to local clock (ntpd 4.2.8p4/xenial) Status in ntp package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus development branch) ntpd version: 1:4.2.8p4+dfsg-3ubuntu3 Source available at: http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/xenial/ntp Using the local clock as a source for ntpd doesn't work anymore This appears to have already been fixed in 4.2.8p5 as per the bug report referenced below http://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2965 Sample config extract from /etc/ntp.conf: server 127.127.1.0 fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 3 Results from ntpq, we would expected the server to be reachable and synced : # ntpd -p remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter ============================================================================== LOCAL(0) .LOCL. 3 l - 64 0 0.000 0.000 0.000 # ntpq ntpq> as ind assid status conf reach auth condition last_event cnt ============================================= 1 4979 8011 yes no none reject mobilize 1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/1558125/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
