On 2012-09-25, Brian Utterback <brian.utterb...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 9/25/2012 3:18 PM, unruh wrote: > >> On 2012-09-25, Arpith Nayak <arpithna...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Could someone give me a blow-by-blow account of what happens >>> exactly? >> >> Try it. It quits AFAIK but I have never tried it. >> >>> Also, does ntpd search for an NTP server in the network accessible >>> by it if no server is specified? Can we implement this functionality >>> if not >> >> No. Where in the world would it search? Would you really want ntpd to >> try every ip address on the internet to see if an ntpd server resides >> there? > > Isn't that essentially what manycast does?
As long as your network topology supports the multicast server discovery messages. A minimal default configuration usable over the public Internet (which, AFAIK, does not propagate multicast messages) requires the pool directive. -- Steve Kostecke <koste...@ntp.org> NTP Public Services Project - http://support.ntp.org/ _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
