Actually, until recently, most Cisco ntp implementations resolved at configuration time and only stored the ip addresses. Even some recent code has issues like ntp coming up before DNS client so it fails with names rather than ip addresses.
> On Mar 26, 2015, at 5:46 PM, Gert Doering <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > >> On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 11:20:19AM -0400, Chuck Church wrote: >> What was the TTL of the DNS entry? I'm assuming windows DNS respects TTLs >> and re-polls when it expires? > > NTP implementations all tend to "resolve at start, and never again". > > Cisco does it that way, standard unix ntpd does, ... > > gert > > -- > USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! > //www.muc.de/~gert/ > Gert Doering - Munich, Germany [email protected] > fax: +49-89-35655025 [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
