[ntp:hackers] NTPv4 Brian Version
David L. Mills
mills at udel.edu
Thu Aug 11 02:32:13 UTC 2005
Danny,
My problem is that whatever is in ntpd resolves the same name/address
for every pool.ntp.edu querey. It could be something broke in ntpd or
that the pool servers are broken. My only check for sanity is
dig/nslookup, which apparently did work as expected.
Dave
Danny Mayer wrote:
> David L. Mills wrote:
>
>> Folks,
>>
>> For some reason the pool is giving attitude. The resolver returns the
>> same server every time asked. The nslookup and dig utilities in
>> Solaris apparently return the right stuff, but the ntpd resolver
>> seems stuck. None of the region zones work except us and asia. It
>> would be nice that, by direction, the entire list returned in one
>> query would be lit up rather than callinb many times.
>>
>> Dave
>
>
> Dave, the reason that dig and nslookup give you different answers than
> the ntpd calls is that dig and nslookup are BIND utilities and they
> only ask the DNS for answers, they never check anywhere else. The
> resolver that the box uses can check in all sorts of places including
> the ncsd or whatever. dig, host and nslookup can only tell you what
> the answer should be not what your application is seeing.
>
> I'd rather ntpd bypass that nonsense though vendors may disagree.
>
> Danny
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