Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears

2010-03-10 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 09/03/2010 14:33, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 05:30:45AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:17:48PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: On 09/03/2010 11:27, Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: ntpd tracks interface updates,

Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears

2010-03-10 Thread David Magda
On Mar 10, 2010, at 03:25, Dominic Fandrey wrote: In the meantime, your comments made me realize, that I can circumvent this problem by adding the ntp pools to my /etc/hosts file. Up to a point: using DNS, the results round-robin--which helps the server operators--and dead servers are also

Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears

2010-03-10 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 10/03/2010 23:19, David Magda wrote: On Mar 10, 2010, at 03:25, Dominic Fandrey wrote: In the meantime, your comments made me realize, that I can circumvent this problem by adding the ntp pools to my /etc/hosts file. Up to a point: using DNS, the results round-robin--which helps the

ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears

2010-03-09 Thread Dominic Fandrey
ntpd tracks interface updates, however it does not requery servers, when they occur. This was less than an hour ago, at my university, the notebook boots and is not connected to anything: 9 Mar 08:07:17 ntpd[1510]: logging to file /var/log/ntpd 9 Mar 08:07:17 ntpd[1510]: precision = 2.234 usec

Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears

2010-03-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: ntpd tracks interface updates, however it does not requery servers, when they occur. This was less than an hour ago, at my university, the notebook boots and is not connected to anything: 9 Mar 08:07:17 ntpd[1510]: logging to file

Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears

2010-03-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 09:27:35PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: ntpd tracks interface updates, however it does not requery servers, when they occur. This was less than an hour ago, at my university, the notebook boots and is not connected to

Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears

2010-03-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:17:48PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: On 09/03/2010 11:27, Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: ntpd tracks interface updates, however it does not requery servers, when they occur. This was less than an hour ago, at my university,

Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears

2010-03-09 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 09/03/2010 11:27, Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: ntpd tracks interface updates, however it does not requery servers, when they occur. This was less than an hour ago, at my university, the notebook boots and is not connected to anything: 9 Mar

Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears

2010-03-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 05:30:45AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:17:48PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: On 09/03/2010 11:27, Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: ntpd tracks interface updates, however it does not requery servers,

Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears

2010-03-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 09:27:35PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: [..] Yes, but it looks more like name service that's not operating, ntpd seems to be doing its best but can't resolve the hostnames? Right smell, wrong pooch :) Thanks for the pointer