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

Dave Hart davehart at gmail.com
Thu Aug 13 03:45:32 UTC 2009


On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:33 AM, Danny Mayer<mayer at ntp.org> wrote:
> Dave Hart wrote:
>> 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.

It used to.  It's at least somewhat better now, see:

http://bugs.ntp.org/1042

Cheers,
Dave Hart



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