On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 11:22:48AM -0400, Chuck wrote:
> On Thursday 25 October 2007, Sam Mason wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 11:14:43AM -0400, Chuck wrote:
> > > On Thursday 25 October 2007, Sam Mason wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 04:04:11PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> > > > > (Hmmm.... this gets me thinking: a way to signal to ntpd that it 
> should 
> > > > > initiate an ntp volley with all its servers right *now* would be good 
> for 
> > > > > systems with intermittent internet connection, especially now that 
> ntpd 
> > > > > rescans interfaces and doesn't need to be restarted if net goes down 
> and 
> > > > > up.  Combined with really high minpoll values this could be an 
> interesting 
> > > > > thing.)
> > > > 
> > > > Why not just use ntp-date here?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > would have to take ntpd down to do that.
> > 
> > But the case that Adrian was talking about was with an "intermittent"
> > connection, so NTP probably wouldn't be running anyway.  Maybe I'm
> > missing something.
> > 
> 
> i thought he was meaning where internet connection was lost for x time but 
> nothing changed in the host setups, then internet comes back on, like with a 
> fiber cut... he was saying instead of cycling ntpd, have something to have it 
> poll instantly. this way it would not have to 'start over' completely.

Yes, I think I was missing something.  I was assuming there was *much*
less time spent connected than disconnected.  I think it was the "really
high minpoll" that made me come to that conclusion.


  Sam
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