Simon Kelley writes: > Understood, my suggestion is that the dnsmasq startup script somehow > interrogate NTP as to if it's running, and if it has a time lock. Only > setting the flag if it isn't or doesn't. Of course that depends on NTP > being able to answer the question. Right. Pretty sure busybox ntpd isn't able to answer that. But since dnsmasq is spawned from a hotplug script on boot, that script can presumably do something clever... -Toke