Comment 6 for bug 1257082

If you set NTPDATE_USE_NTP_CONF=no (eg. from a preseed late_command), then does this fix the issue?

Sounds to me that we either need to have MAAS do that, or consult with Debian about the intention of this setting and its interaction with DHCP in the default case to see if it's a bug or it's intentional.

I understand your use case and think that MAAS should support it, but I wonder whether just fixing the DHCP hook will work in all cases, or some other work is required here. My doubt is just that DHCP needs to run much earlier than usual in the cloud-init case, and so I don't know if the hook will always run, and therefore just want to make sure. Scott?