Why does ntpd fail to join multicast on boot?

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Issue

  • Why does ntpd fail to join multicast on boot in rhel7?
  • ntpd not joining multicast on boot
  • On a RHEL7.1 system, ntpd will not join the the multicast during the boot. One everything is running, if ntpd is restarted, it will join the multicast and sync time.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1
  • ntp

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