[ntp:questions] nptq -p slowness
David L. Mills
mills at udel.edu
Mon Jan 29 04:36:08 UTC 2007
Harlan,
No; I never said that or you misunderstood me on another matter. The
ntpq implementer Dennis Fergusson had his reasons for using DNS on
refclock addresses, but I never asked him about why and have had no
problem with that on any server over the life of the program. It
certainly could be a problem should the local DNS be very slow and I
have no problem should somebody take the trouble to remove the feature.
There is a macro somewhere that recognizes whether the address is a
refclock.
Dave
Harlan Stenn wrote:
>>>>In article <0eednfx366oTvCDYnZ2dnUVZ_u-unZ2d at comcast.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>
>
> Richard> The bug is that ntpq should not be interpreting the refid at all!
> Richard> It's a text string, not an IP address and should not be treated as
> Richard> one. Yes, sometimes the refid IS an IP address but it still should
> Richard> be treated as a simple text string!
>
> How can the code tell the difference between a refid that is a string and
> one that is an IP address?
>
> I want to stop doing this resolution altogether, but the last time I asked
> Dave about this he said he wanted to keep the lookup in place, even though
> it is only useful for IPv4.
>
> H
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