I forwarded your bug upstream: https://gitlab.com/NTPsec/ntpsec/issues/577
Getting back to the network-online thing for a bit... You tried adding network-online.target as a dependency of ntpsec.service, for example, by something like this (as root)? mkdir -p /etc/systemd/systemd/ntpsec.service.d cat > /etc/systemd/systemd/ntpsec.service.d/network.conf << EOF After=network-online.target Wants=network-online.target EOF How are you configuring your network (NetworkManager, systemd-networkd, or ifupdown), and what do these return? systemctl is-enabled NetworkManager-wait-online.service systemctl is-enabled systemd-networkd-wait-online.service systemctl is-enabled ifupdown-wait-online.service If the right one is not enabled, what happens if you try enabling it? Does that (plus the drop-in above to add the network-online dependency) cause ntpd to wait until the network is actually up? -- Richard
