[ntp:questions] Best practice: re-resolve server IP address before each poll/query

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.rupprecht+gnus200706 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 23 00:54:07 UTC 2007


rodd at panix.com (Rod Dorman) writes:
> In article <obbtk4-h18.ln1 at www.otherother.com>,
> Bruce Thompson  <drllama at otherother.com> wrote:
>>  ...
>>There is definitely a problem with the DNS lookup, and with the issue of 
>>"load balancing" and statistics management, what about servers that are 
>>sitting on dynamic IP addresses?
>
> A server with a dynamic IP address is an oxymoron.

If it were that much of any oxymoron we'd still have SRI-NIC
distribute /etc/host files.

-wolfgang




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