On 27/01/07 17:48, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > Rob Janssen wrote: >> However, a "when the server is dead for some time and it was configured >> with a DNS name rather than a fixed address, do a new DNS lookup and try >> again" > > Doing a lookup regardless of whether the server is dead would > additionally help people who want to move servers to new IP addresses. > Just only do the lookup once a day or so (at a random time for each > server), to minimize instability.
ntpd is going to have to discard everything it knows about a server when it does this... how will 0.pool, 1.pool, 2.poll work if they get updated at different times? If ntpd is to be changed it'd make more sense to do some "pool of ntp servers" specific changes. -- Simon Arlott
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