You might consider using SCNetworkReachability to monitor when the availability 
of time.apple.com changes.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/SystemConfiguration/Reference/SCNetworkReachabilityRef/Reference/reference.html

-Matt


On Sep 2, 2012, at 1:23 AM, "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <gerr...@mdenkmann.de> wrote:

> 
> On 31 Aug 2012, at 23:57, Marco S Hyman <m...@snafu.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Aug 31, 2012, at 6:04 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann <gerr...@mdenkmann.de> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> But often (not always) my app (while in DarkWake) gets:
>>> Error getaddrinfo(time.apple.com, ntp) -> nodename nor servname provided, 
>>> or not known
>> 
>> I believe its a race condition.  NTP is trying to access the network
>> before it is fully re-initialized.  I'll see this (or similar network
>> races) when waking my iMac up.  I don't believe it has anything to
>> do with DarkWake, specifically.
> 
> You are probably right.
> 
> I changed my app so that if getaddrinfo() does not succeed, it waits 10 
> seconds, then tries again.
> This seems to have fixed the problem.
> 
> Thanks for your suggestion!
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Gerriet.
> 
> 
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