Re: Anybody know how to debug things like this?

2016-07-15 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > > e...@thyrsus.com said: > > The only safe alternative would be to force the initial DNS lookups to be > > synchronous. > > That doesn't work for the pool case. It wants to get more servers if some of > the ones it is using stop responding. Noted. > > A: get configuration (tha

Re: Anybody know how to debug things like this?

2016-07-15 Thread Hal Murray
e...@thyrsus.com said: > The only safe alternative would be to force the initial DNS lookups to be > synchronous. That doesn't work for the pool case. It wants to get more servers if some of the ones it is using stop responding. > A: get configuration (that's the early thread launch) We coul

Re: Anybody know how to debug things like this?

2016-07-15 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Hal Murray : > > I want to ask a different question: why the early thread launch? Can we move > > that? > > It's getting called from config_peers in ntp_config. I don't know of any > reason why we couldn't move it. On further examination, it looks like moving the configuration read to later