[ntp:questions] NTP stops when client address changes?

Danny Mayer mayer at ntp.org
Thu Aug 13 03:33:16 UTC 2009


Dave Hart wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Danny Mayer<mayer at ntp.org> wrote:
>> David Woolley wrote:
>>> There are known problems if the address of the actual PC interface changes.
>> Nope, it works fine. I use it all the time.
> 
> I've seen ntpd log messages that indicate to me at least one known
> problem when the machine's local address changes, though I don't know
> of a bug report about it.  The broadcastclient implementation chooses
> a local interface to use at startup, and if that interface goes away
> (as it will, for this definition of "interface", if its IP address
> changes), the broadcastclient functionality is abandoned instead of
> migrating to another interface.  Perhaps you can take on fixing that.

Yes it should. That begs the question of whether multicast has the same
problem.

Danny

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