[ntp:questions] Re: What does 73.78.73.84 refer to?

Danny Mayer mayer at ntp.isc.org
Fri Nov 11 02:30:53 UTC 2005


Hal Murray wrote:
> In article <pan.2005.11.09.11.32.43.699993 at mail.localhost.invalid>,
>  Tim <tim at mail.localhost.invalid> writes:
> 
> 
>>There's this little glitch with the current implementation, whether that
>>be NTP or NTP on Fedora:
>>
>>If your internet connection goes down, NTP stops using it to connect to
>>servers.  Later, when your internet connection returns, it still makes no
>>attempt to connect to internet servers through the returned connection.
> 
> 
> Is that a general statement about network connections or are you
> referring to the special case of DHCP when the new connection
> comes back up with a different IP address?
> 

The latter. See bug #51. This is specific to NTP. We have code that's
prelease that fixes this problem but there needs to be a shakedown
period before it's ready for release.

Danny



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