[ntp:questions] ntpd on dial up machine: no DNS resolving => giving up on all servers

David Mills mills at udel.edu
Mon Jun 8 19:47:11 UTC 2009


Armp.

See the Association Management page in the official online documentation 
at ntp.org.Relying on man pages is decidedly dangerous for the reasons 
pointed out on the home page of the document collection.

Dave

DeArno Wald wrote:

>E-Mail Sent to this address will be added to the BlackLists wrote:
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>>Arno Wald wrote:
>> > if a ntp-server is no longer reachable it would be good
>> >  to recheck the IP address. 
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>>Isn't that what the preempt option is for?
>>  e.g. pool pool.ntp.org preempt
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>Maybe!? I do not understand the description of "preempt", "persistent" and 
>"mobilized", etc. in the man page.
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