On Thursday 25 October 2007, Sam Mason wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 11:14:43AM -0400, Chuck wrote: > > On Thursday 25 October 2007, Sam Mason wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:04:11PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > > > > (Hmmm.... this gets me thinking: a way to signal to ntpd that it should > > > > initiate an ntp volley with all its servers right *now* would be good for > > > > systems with intermittent internet connection, especially now that ntpd > > > > rescans interfaces and doesn't need to be restarted if net goes down and > > > > up. Combined with really high minpoll values this could be an interesting > > > > thing.) > > > > > > Why not just use ntp-date here? > > > > > > > would have to take ntpd down to do that. > > But the case that Adrian was talking about was with an "intermittent" > connection, so NTP probably wouldn't be running anyway. Maybe I'm > missing something. >
i thought he was meaning where internet connection was lost for x time but nothing changed in the host setups, then internet comes back on, like with a fiber cut... he was saying instead of cycling ntpd, have something to have it poll instantly. this way it would not have to 'start over' completely. > > Sam > _______________________________________________ > timekeepers mailing list > [email protected] > https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers > -- Chuck "...and the hordes of M$*ft users descended upon me in their anger, and asked 'Why do you not get the viruses or the BlueScreensOfDeath or insecure system troubles and slowness or pay through the nose for an OS as *we* do?!!', and I answered...'I use Linux'. " The Book of John, chapter 1, page 1, and end of book _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
