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.
Ask — http://askask.com/ On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Hal Murray <[email protected]> wrote: > [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 > -- > These are my opinions. I hate spam. > _______________________________________________ > pool mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
