[ntp:hackers] ifconfig if down .. up -> ntpd loses connectivity...
Danny Mayer
mayer at gis.net
Wed Aug 17 00:03:26 UTC 2005
Brad Knowles wrote:
> At 10:48 PM +0200 2005-08-16, Frank Kardel wrote:
>
>> Am I the only one seeing this ? This does not seem right as the
>> previous address is gone it doesn't seem to make sense that udp
>> endpoints remain stuck on invalid addresses. Not even an error is
>> reported in ntpd. Applications seem to be kept in the dark about
>> being disconnected from the sane world.
>
>
> Known problem. I can just about quote the bug from memory now -- I
> think it's #52. The issue is that ntpd only scans the interfaces to see
> which ones to bind to on startup, and doesn't re-scan the interfaces later.
>
It's #51.
Danny
> If you search the archives of the questions at support.ntp.org
> mailing list (or the comp.protocols.time.ntp newsgroup), you should see
> just about every third post coming up with this same issue.
>
>
> Anyway, it's a known bug, and will be fixed in the relatively near
> future. But maybe not until after 4.2.1 is released (hopefully within a
> couple of weeks).
>
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