Bug#400390: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#400390: Please have ntp installed by default in the standard task

2010-01-31 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 01:05:53PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Any updates? The version in lenny should rescan the interfaces every 5 minutes, and it works in my case. But there are cases it doesn't work properly, like when using mdns that returns it can't find the host when the network is

Bug#400390: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#400390: Please have ntp installed by default in the standard task

2006-11-28 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:42:55PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: Kurt Roeckx wrote: It's the client that stops working. And it's probably a regression. So that's no longer an argument to prefer the periodic ntpdate instead of the daemon, assuming it gets fixed? It doesn't work out of

Bug#400390: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#400390: Please have ntp installed by default in the standard task

2006-11-27 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 01:29:10PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: However, I'm not sure that the ntp is a package that should be installed by default, or atleast not run as a daemon by default. Something that runs ntpdate (or ntpd -q -g) regularly, or some sntp client, could make more sense

Bug#400390: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#400390: Please have ntp installed by default in the standard task

2006-11-27 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 01:29:10PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: However, I'm not sure that the ntp is a package that should be installed by default, or atleast not run as a daemon by default. Something that runs ntpdate (or ntpd -q -g) regularly, or some sntp client,

Bug#400390: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#400390: Please have ntp installed by default in the standard task

2006-11-27 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 09:50:31PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: an ntp server, and not to run on a desktop system or something that doesn't have a static IP address. Why does it require a static IP address? It basicly comes down to ntpd currently not supporting changing IP addresses.

Bug#400390: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#400390: Please have ntp installed by default in the standard task

2006-11-27 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 09:50:31PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: an ntp server, and not to run on a desktop system or something that doesn't have a static IP address. Why does it require a static IP address? It basicly comes down to ntpd currently not supporting changing

Bug#400390: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#400390: Please have ntp installed by default in the standard task

2006-11-27 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:18:15PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: The NTP protocol uses UDP. If a client sends a packet to a server, it expects to get a response from the same IP address back. This creates problems for systems with multiple IP addresses. Since there is no API to get the

Bug#400390: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#400390: Please have ntp installed by default in the standard task

2006-11-27 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 11:18:15PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: The NTP protocol uses UDP. If a client sends a packet to a server, it expects to get a response from the same IP address back. This creates problems for systems with multiple IP addresses. Since there is no

Bug#400390: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#400390: Please have ntp installed by default in the standard task

2006-11-26 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Peter Eisentraut wrote: Olaf van der Spek wrote: Could you have ntp installed by default on a Debian install? This is not up to the package maintainers. You need to talk to the Debian installer group. At #debian-devel LIW said the package maintainer had to ask ftp-master to increase the

Bug#400390: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#400390: Please have ntp installed by default in the standard task

2006-11-26 Thread Olaf van der Spek
Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 10:00:30AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Olaf van der Spek wrote: Could you have ntp installed by default on a Debian install? This is not up to the package maintainers. You need to talk to the Debian installer group. The debian installer group

Bug#400390: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#400390: Please have ntp installed by default in the standard task

2006-11-26 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Olaf van der Spek wrote: Could you have ntp installed by default on a Debian install? This is not up to the package maintainers. You need to talk to the Debian installer group. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#400390: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#400390: Please have ntp installed by default in the standard task

2006-11-26 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 10:00:30AM +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: Olaf van der Spek wrote: Could you have ntp installed by default on a Debian install? This is not up to the package maintainers. You need to talk to the Debian installer group. The debian installer group already said that