Roger writes: > Using one pool line ntpd slowly increases the number of servers > until it is happy but hasn't dropped any, not even an obviously > rogue one. As DNS only returns 4 IP addresses that is the > maximum it can start with and why it has to build up its > numbers.
Yes, that is because before this we opened up "too many". Dave Hart and I talked about this a while ago, and I've never had the time to go back and say "We know how many more servers we'd like, let's have the pool directive open that many of them now." > Using multiple pool lines ntpd starts with more than it needs > and after about 10 minutes starts dropping the ones it doesn't > like. I haven't see that case happen, but I haven't looked in a while either. > I restarted ntpd this morning. It solicited 13 servers all of > which showed up in ntpq. After 10 minutes it started dropping > servers. After 49 minutes it had dropped 7 servers. It would be > useful if one of the remaining 6 goes rogue to see what, if > anything, ntpd does. It would also be swell to have a test case for this. H _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
