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 Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1558125 Title: ntpd doesn't synchronize to local clock (ntpd 4.2.8p4/xenial) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ntp/+bug/1558125/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
