diff --git a/recipes-bsp/ntp/files/ntpdate.default b/recipes-bsp/ntp/files/ntpdate.default
index 486b6e07d3..70c309f857 100644
--- a/recipes-bsp/ntp/files/ntpdate.default
+++ b/recipes-bsp/ntp/files/ntpdate.default
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Configuration script used by ntpdate-sync script
 
-NTPSERVERS=""
+NTPSERVERS="pool.ntp.org"
 
 # Set to "yes" to write time to hardware clock on success
 UPDATE_HWCLOCK="no"
diff --git a/recipes-bsp/ntp/ntp_4.2.8p1.bb b/recipes-bsp/ntp/ntp_4.2.8p1.bb
index 03e88efea0..cef3344e13 100644
--- a/recipes-bsp/ntp/ntp_4.2.8p1.bb
+++ b/recipes-bsp/ntp/ntp_4.2.8p1.bb
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ SRC_URI = "http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/ntp4/ntp-4.2/ntp-${PV}.tar.g
            file://ntpd.list \
 "
 
-PR = "r6"
+PR = "r7"
 
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "65d8cdfae4722226fbe29863477641ed"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "948274b88f1ed002d867ced6aaefdfd0999668b11285ac2b3a67ff2629d59d88"