On Monday 04 April 2011 18:39, Sergey Naumov wrote: > > How fast ntpdate fails when given non-existent server? > ntpdate will fail in about 8 seconds with message "no servers can be > found, exiting" > > > Maybe be need to make timeout configurable? Say, -Q SECS? > > For client running in foregroung it will be better to delete > unreachable server from servers list we are trying to probe, but for > current ntpd implementation where we assume that our client is run > forever as a daemon (and so unexisting server can appear after some > time passed), timeout is a good choise. > > Sergey Naumov.
How about this? http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=8e23fafadee75bbe275bb795d0b2c2121dad93e7 -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
