No address for NTP server time.apple.com ?

Hi there.

The message "No address for NTP server time.apple.com" means the AEBS cannot resolve (convert) the DNS name "time.apple.com" to an IP address. All network devices - computers, AEBS etc. - need to be able to do this to find other network devices on the Internet. They have to use numbers not the human friendly DNS names like time.apple.com (which is a valid host name).

If you are seeing this on the AEBS it means it cannot convert the name to an IP address. To do this it needs to know the IP address of one or more DNS servers (which do the job).

To check this - in the AirPort Utility connect to the AEBS and go to:

Internet | Internet Connection and look at the entries for "DNS Server(s):".

Is there anything there? Is the font a grey colour not black? Ideally, if you are connecting to an ASP via cable or xDSL, the ASPs equipment will 'give' that information automatically to the AEBS and you will see numbers in grey font in one, or both, of the fields. If you don't see numbers there then the AEBS will not be able to 'resolve' names to IP address numbers.