[ntp:questions] Rejecting Good Peers

Maarten Wiltink maarten at kittensandcats.net
Wed Dec 3 16:53:48 UTC 2008


"Calvin Webster" <cwebster at ec.rr.com> wrote in message
news:1228314219.10019.14.camel at wizard.webstercom.com...
> On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 09:08 +0100, Maarten Wiltink wrote:
>> "Cal Webster" <cwebster at ec.rr.com> wrote in message
>> news:1228252099.16996.353.camel at inet3...

>>> [...] I haven't restarted the
>>> servers yet in case I need to query some more info. Do you think
>>> this could be a contributing factor in this problem?
>>
>> If you haven't restarted the machines, that's okay. You never have
>> to, restarting NTP is enough. If you haven't restarted the NTP
>> daemons, they will not have the new configuration.
>
> Thank you for being specific Maarten. If I were a Linux novice that
> information would be very helpful. It's hard to judge skill level from
> a few posts. When I say "servers" I mean the ntpd daemons on each host.
> I only restart hosts for kernel updates or shutdown in case of
> destructive whether. :-)

And thank you for taking the note in the spirit in which it was meant.
'Server' is unfortunately an ambiguous term and I thought I'd head off
some possible confusion. Not necessarily yours.

There is still some confusion on my part left unsettled, though. If you
haven't restarted the NTP processes, they will not have the new
configuration. Yes, that _would_ be a contributing factor - any problems
that are due to the old configuration would have no reason to go away.
How should I read that question?

Groetjes,
Maarten Wiltink




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