On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 10:04:32AM -0400, Danny Mayer wrote: > On 6/23/21 10:26 AM, Jim Pennino wrote: > > It seems that any server in ntp.conf that is specified as a name, as > > the pool servers are, will after a sufficiently long DNS outage just > > disappear and not come back after the outage without restarting ntp. > > > > It would seem to me that ntp should only need to do a DNS lookup on > > startup and from then on continue to use the address found. > > > > But that is not how ntp works. > > No, you shouldn't assume that once you have an IP address you can decide to > use it forever. The owner of any server has the right to change the DNS > entry used to point to a different server. We have had no end of problems > with clients bombarding an IP address with packets long after it has stopped > serving time.
All well and good but essentially irrelevant to what I posted. > If you have a DNS issue then you should address that. How do I address network failures by my ISP? Should I stomp my feet or what? > ntpd should pick up > new addresses if one is available. If it doesn't do that please file a bug > report. Maybe it should, and I think it should, but it doesn't. Where do I file this bug report? -- Jim Pennino _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions