Rob Janssen wrote: > It is clear that ntpd was designed on the assumption that an NTP > server is a solidly available resource that does not go away for no > reason.
It's equally likely whoever wrote the code just thought to cache DNS lookup once for efficiency and never thought about the case where the DNS record would change. :-) > As discussed before, it might be nice if there was a config option that > tells ntpd to re-do a DNS lookup when a server that is configured with a > domain name remains unreachable for a long time. I'd argue NTP should just do it if a server is unreachable for a long time, over a day. Has anyone ever tried submitting a patch that does this? _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
