Single www.google.com network call on launch

I’m afraid that I may not be able to easily reproduce the issue.
As mentioned in the linked post, the 2nd attempt to upgrade went smoothly hence the Vero 4K currently is running Bullseye happily. And no future reboot was blocked by network time sync service.

Looking from the thread, there is another Vero 4K users experience the same on both her/his Vero 4K:

I plan to upgrade two OSMC instances on RPI3s on my parent place to Bullseye this weekend. I will pay attention on whether it would happen there.