My best (eh, only...) guess is that some firewall software does the PTR 
queries. I can't think of a scenario where an NTP client would bother. I am 
surprised this is so (relatively) common though. I will add a note on the 
join.html page about it.







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On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Hal Murray <[email protected]>
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> [email protected] said:
>> that's more or less normal, since ntpd (and maybe other software)
>> is resolving the currently used IP address to a host name. 
> Which part of ntpd does a reverse lookup?
> ntpd does a forward lookup if you use names in your server line in the config 
> file.
> ntpq -p does a reverse lookup
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