Where does ntpdate get its settings from and what is the "no servers can be used" error about?

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Published on 2012-06-08T14:50:48Z Indexed on 2012/06/08 16:49 UTC
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When I run ntpdate on its own, I get the following output:

8 Jun 15:47:46 ntpdate[31251]: no servers can be used, exiting

If I run it with the -q ntp.ubuntu.com switch, it seems to query just fine.

I have been hunting through many files and the most relevant one I have found is /etc/default/ntpdate, however, even with NTPDATE_USE_CONF set to no, I just can't understand/see how this error is occurring

Any ideas?

Update-- been looking non stop...

It appears that ntupdate-debianworks fine and is the actual command that makes use of /etc/default/ntupdate, but, this doesn't answer the main question and I still can't find it...

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