On Sat, Aug 18, 2007 at 07:22:32AM -0700, Nelson Minar wrote: > Rob Janssen wrote: > > It is clear that ntpd was designed on the assumption that an NTP > > server is a solidly available resource that does not go away for no > > reason. > > It's equally likely whoever wrote the code just thought to cache DNS > lookup once for efficiency and never thought about the case where the > DNS record would change. :-)
I'm not entirely certain, but as far as I know it was a definite design decision. > > As discussed before, it might be nice if there was a config option that > > tells ntpd to re-do a DNS lookup when a server that is configured with a > > domain name remains unreachable for a long time. > > I'd argue NTP should just do it if a server is unreachable for a long > time, over a day. Has anyone ever tried submitting a patch that does this? It's been brought up several times before, I couldn't find the canonical bug, someone sent it to the list a while ago and I can't seem to find it now, but I found this: https://support.ntp.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=617 Sam _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
