[ntp:questions] Re: Host found message incorrect

David L. Mills mills at udel.edu
Thu Jan 15 17:59:37 UTC 2004


Folks,

I lied. That message was added to ntpdate.c without my knowledge. In any
case, ntpdate.c is a dead puppy, as much better and more reliable
functionality is available in ntpd. As I said, you will need to contact
whoever modified the sources.

Dave

"David L. Mills" wrote:
> 
> Mike,
> 
> Those "Looking for..." messages are not in the distribution that leaves
> here. You should take your question to those who modified the sources.
> 
> Dave
> 
> Mike Robinson wrote:
> >
> > I'm running ntp-4.2.0 on several hosts. This morning I rebooted a host while it wasn't connected to the Internet (usually it is connected) and got the following messages:
> > ntpd: Synchronizing with time server: Looking for host 203.21.37.18 and service ntp
> > host found : 203.21.37.18
> > Looking for host 128.184.1.1 and service ntp
> > host found : 128.184.1.1
> > Looking for host 129.6.15.28 and service ntp
> > host found : 129.6.15.28
> > Looking for host 129.6.15.29 and service ntp
> > host found : 129.6.15.29
> > Looking for host 132.163.4.101 and service ntp
> > host found : 132.163.4.101
> > Looking for host 132.163.4.102 and service ntp
> > host found : 132.163.4.102
> > Looking for host 192.5.41.40 and service ntp
> > host found : 192.5.41.40
> > Looking for host 193.67.79.202 and service ntp
> > host found : 193.67.79.202
> >                                                            [  FAILED  ]
> >
> > ntp put the following lines in the system log:
> > Jan 12 08:19:44 test ntpdate[767]: no server suitable for synchronization found
> > Jan 12 08:19:44 test ntpd:  failed
> >
> > Why is ntp emitting 'host found' messages when the time servers can't be reached?
> >
> > MJR



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