* Aaron Stellman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-11 23:50]: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:21:29PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote: > > * Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-10 10:39]: > > > ntpd -s will time out eventually, but the 'eventually' might be > > > painfully far away. it's the dns routines that block and cause these > > > problems. i know how to fix this but haven't found the time to do so > > > yet. maybe i get a chance on the flight later today. maybe. > > > > didn't find too much time on the flight, but finished this morning. > > > > basically, move dns to its own process. the parent process is just not > > allowed to block no matter what. the dns process can drop privs but > > not chroot. > > > Hello, > It's very nice, now it takes around ~20 secs or so to timeout in the > following scenarios:
more like 15, and if you want it different, you change #define SETTIME_TIMEOUT 15 /* max seconds to wait with -s */ in ntpd.h :) -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
