No, as clearly explained in the ticket at OpenWRT and that caused that patch to be reverted. Note that the patch is missing from current SVN. We do not want even more clients hammering on our TIC servers to effectively DoS them. Rate limiting is now in place because of that though. Fixing your platform is the only way to go. It is actually very simple with something short like: See also: http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/ntpclient or If you do not have a proper time on your system a lot of things will be wrong, eg DHCP lease times will break too. As such, fix the real issue, do not try to work around it in other ways and hurt other people's services by hammering on their servers.