On Sep 19, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Darrin Chandler wrote: > I have seen admins do a host lookup on the pool and then hand enter > the > server IPs they got. Strange thing to do, but there are some strange > people out there ;-)
Years ago, I worked at a site where nameservice was unreliable, but we did use Kerberos, so the ntp servers on our own net were identified by IP address. The underlying problem was solved when a couple of us just went against the boss's policy of putting all the important services on big vendor supported hosts, and we set up our primary DNS on a dedicated box we pulled out from junk under my desk. Ultimately the boss came around to having small dedicated servers for things like DNS. Anyway, I can see where old habits of putting in IP addresses could come from. Of course it's silly to do it if you don't also control the IP that has the NTP server, but people can pick up rules of thumb without really understanding all their implications. Cheers, -j _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
