Re: [ntp:questions] Resolving Hostnames

2007-12-23 Thread Danny Mayer
David Woolley wrote: allowing the load to evenly distribute among the servers in the pool. In this case the client will send NTP requests to the same host but get NTP responses from physically different servers. All servers in the pool peer with one another. If you can make this sort of

Re: [ntp:questions] Resolving Hostnames

2007-12-20 Thread Danny Mayer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 18, 4:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Woolley) wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know if there is a way to tell ntpd to periodically re- resolve the hostnames provided in ntp.conf. When ntpd starts up it There is

Re: [ntp:questions] Resolving Hostnames

2007-12-20 Thread Steve Kostecke
On 2007-12-19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So to summarize, I can achieve the load--balancing via the DNS (which will return the IPs in different order each query) because each of my clients will query DNS at different times (i.e. they each will startup NTP at different times).

Re: [ntp:questions] Resolving Hostnames

2007-12-20 Thread Ronan Flood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Danny Mayer) wrote: Did you read http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Dev/DNSServerFailover that I pointed you to? When complete it WILL query the DNS again after a period of failure. An issue here (at my workplace we're rolling out IPv6 on our NTP servers): if a server has both

Re: [ntp:questions] Resolving Hostnames

2007-12-20 Thread Ronan Flood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Danny Mayer) wrote: If [...] a client chooses the IPv6 address, will it fall back to the IPv4 address if it fails to get a response over IPv6? Currently no. That's one of the issues that need to get fixed. Righto, thanks Danny -- good to know it's on the radar. --

Re: [ntp:questions] Resolving Hostnames

2007-12-19 Thread throindarts
On Dec 18, 4:09 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Woolley) wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know if there is a way to tell ntpd to periodically re- resolve the hostnames provided in ntp.conf. When ntpd starts up it There is work in progress to

[ntp:questions] Resolving Hostnames

2007-12-18 Thread throindarts
Hi, I would like to know if there is a way to tell ntpd to periodically re- resolve the hostnames provided in ntp.conf. When ntpd starts up it will resolve the hostnames using DNS but it appears to lock onto the IP it selects and never re-checks DNS to see if the hostname resolves to a different

Re: [ntp:questions] Resolving Hostnames

2007-12-18 Thread Danny Mayer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to know if there is a way to tell ntpd to periodically re- resolve the hostnames provided in ntp.conf. When ntpd starts up it will resolve the hostnames using DNS but it appears to lock onto the IP it selects and never re-checks DNS to see if the

Re: [ntp:questions] Resolving Hostnames

2007-12-18 Thread David Woolley
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know if there is a way to tell ntpd to periodically re- resolve the hostnames provided in ntp.conf. When ntpd starts up it There is work in progress to provide for re-resolving. It may even be in the latest builds. I am