Graham S. Jarvis wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've just been faced with a tricky problem at a client site.
> They rebooted the Astlinux PC and phoned me (from a mobile phone) to say
> that their phone system didn't work any more.
>
> What had happened is that during the reboot it hung while trying to get the
> time from the ntp pool.
> This was because there was no Internet connection. There is an external
> adsl modem which was on but for some reason it wasn't responding. When the
> modem was reset (power off/on) and the PC rebooted everything booted fine.
>
> They have 0.4.0 - but it might be a more general issue.
>
> Is there a way of simply timing out the search for the ntp pool if the first
> try fails then at least asterisk will be started and the phones are not
> dead.
> Of course not having an Internet connection is bad but not having phones is
> worse.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Graham S. Jarvis-
Graham,
I have solved this problem by using an IP address (not a hostname) for
NTPSERV. I know it is not the best solution, but it has been working
for me. I just don't have time to dig into OpenNTPD right now.
--
Kristian Kielhofner
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