[ntp:questions] NTP will fail once a week

[John Pettitt]

mayer at gis.net wrote:
>>So I would like to strongly suggest that next NTP version read the 
>>machine's IP more frequently. FWIK this is not very time consuming for
>>NTPD, is it very difficult to implement?
>>
>>thanks,
>>Alain
> 
> 
> Yes it is very difficult to implement. Besides rescanning the interfaces
> you then have to go find the obsoleted associations, remove the old and
> create new ones.
> 
> Danny
> 

It would seem that the way to fix this would be restart ntpd when all 
non-local clocks have been unavailable for some extended period.  It would be 
petty easy to script somthing to run from cron once an hour that checks for 
connectivity and then restarts ntpd if the network is up but ntpd is not 
seeing any peers.

John