I have discovered an issue that affects anyone who runs ntpd on an OS that uses the BIND resolver library *and* uses the pool servers.
(to clarify, not directly an issue for the pool servers themselves, but definitely for anyone who uses them; however, this may over time result in sub-optimal access patterns for pool servers) It appears that the resolver library that comes with BIND 9.4.2, unlike previous versions, has a per-process DNS cache. This means round-robin DNS no longer works, and you have to use [123].region.pool.ntp.org in your ntp.conf, or you will end up with just the same server several times over. At present, this affects anyone running FreeBSD-CURRENT newer than mid- December or so, and anyone running FreeBSD 7. I'm not sure which other OSes it affects. I will try to follow this up with the appropriate FreeBSD people to see if this can be corrected before or immediately after the 7.0 release. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
