The busybox version is apparently less capable than the stand-alone package/daemon. I am used to run local ntp server for the network clients an seeing
config timeserver 'ntp'
option enable_server '1'
one would reckon that provides a local server. Yet restaring system is not yielding a local ntp server listening at udp port 123. So what is this option for then respectively how to provide a local ntp server other than sysntpd for which I could not trace any config options?
I hope that does not rate as being another exotic case… considering that apparently one or another user been impacted as well.
On a side note NTP is recommending not to point to single NTP upstream servers, for a variety of reasons, but to server pools rather.
Having put the below config system starts without any validation error but are those options actually parsed/applied or rather not as it happens with option enable_server '1'?
Summary
config timeserver 'ntp'
option enabled '1'
option enable_server '1'
option interface_listen '192.168.112.12'
option interface_ignore 'wildcard'
list restrict 'default kod notrap nomodify nopeer limited'
list restrict 'source notrap nomodify noquery'
list restrict '127.0.0.1'
option interval '600'
list pool '0.europe.pool.ntp.org iburst'
list pool '0.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst'
list pool '0.openwrt.pool.ntp.org iburst'
list pool '0.asia.pool.ntp.org iburst'
list pool '0.north-america.pool.ntp.org iburst'
list pool '1.europe.pool.ntp.org iburst'
list pool '1.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst'
list pool '1.openwrt.pool.ntp.org iburst'
list pool '1.asia.pool.ntp.org iburst'
list pool '1.north-america.pool.ntp.org iburst'
list pool '2.europe.pool.ntp.org iburst'
list pool '2.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst'
list pool '2.openwrt.pool.ntp.org iburst'
list pool '2.asia.pool.ntp.org iburst'
list pool '2.north-america.pool.ntp.org iburst'
option driftfile '/var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift'
list filegen_loopstats_file_loopstats_type_day '1'
list filegen_peerstats_file_peerstats_type_day '1'
list filegen_clockstats_file_clockstats_type_day '1'