[ntp:questions] nptq -p slowness

Danny Mayer mayer at ntp.isc.org
Mon Jan 29 13:12:38 UTC 2007


David J Taylor wrote:
> Harlan Stenn wrote:
> []
>> 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
> 
> Even though this was not Dave's intention, as a user I find it very 
> helpful to see what reference IP addresses (with an option to convert to 
> names) servers are using one level up.  Perhaps others find it useful as 
> well.
> 
> David 

You can use dig to lookup names from addresses if you really need to
know and since the value of the refid is not necessarily an IPv4 address
it's not something we should be doing anyway.

Danny



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