ntpd with -s switch

[Frank Bax]

mk wrote:
> I had problems to boot my OpenBSD 4.2 stable box. It was stucked in phase 
> where NTPD daemon was starting.
> Later on I've found that my network connection is lost. In my rc.conf.local 
> file was setup to star ntpd with -s flag to set the time with start of OS.


Are you sure you are running 4.2 stable?  Perhaps you are running 4.2 
release?  This bug was reported and presumably fixed in November 2007. 
See misc archives subject "nptd regression in 4.2"; when Henning said 
"the problem is the dns lookup that blocks the parent process."