[OpenIndiana-discuss] NTP not starting in Zones

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Alexander Pyhalov via openindiana-discuss wrote:

> Hello.
> What is a point of running ntp in zone?
> NTP running in GZ will care about system time.

The main reason is usually security.  Running network daemons inside 
of zones helps avoid problems if there is a security issue with the 
daemon.

I run named and ntp in the global zone since I worry that the host 
could have some dependencies on these protocols which impacts clean 
booting.

Bob
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