Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears

2010-03-10 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 10/03/2010 23:19, David Magda wrote: > On Mar 10, 2010, at 03:25, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > >> In the meantime, your comments made me realize, that I can circumvent >> this problem by adding the ntp pools to my /etc/hosts file. > > Up to a point: using DNS, the results round-robin--which helps

Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears

2010-03-10 Thread David Magda
On Mar 10, 2010, at 03:25, Dominic Fandrey wrote: In the meantime, your comments made me realize, that I can circumvent this problem by adding the ntp pools to my /etc/hosts file. Up to a point: using DNS, the results round-robin--which helps the server operators--and dead servers are also r

Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears

2010-03-10 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 09/03/2010 14:33, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 05:30:45AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:17:48PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >>> On 09/03/2010 11:27, Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > ntpd tracks interface

Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears

2010-03-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 09:27:35PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: [..] > > Yes, but it looks more like name service that's not operating, ntpd > > seems to be doing its best but can't resolve the hostnames? Right smell, wrong pooch :) Thanks for the point

Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears

2010-03-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:17:48PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > On 09/03/2010 11:27, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > > > ntpd tracks interface updates, however it does not requery > > > servers, when they occur. This was less than an hour ago, > > > at my uni

Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears

2010-03-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 05:30:45AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 02:17:48PM +0100, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > > On 09/03/2010 11:27, Ian Smith wrote: > > > On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > > > > ntpd tracks interface updates, however it does not requery > > > >

Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears

2010-03-09 Thread Dominic Fandrey
On 09/03/2010 11:27, Ian Smith wrote: > On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > > ntpd tracks interface updates, however it does not requery > > servers, when they occur. This was less than an hour ago, > > at my university, the notebook boots and is not connected > > to anything: > > >

Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears

2010-03-09 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 09:27:35PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: > On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > > ntpd tracks interface updates, however it does not requery > > servers, when they occur. This was less than an hour ago, > > at my university, the notebook boots and is not connected > >

Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears

2010-03-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > ntpd tracks interface updates, however it does not requery > servers, when they occur. This was less than an hour ago, > at my university, the notebook boots and is not connected > to anything: > > 9 Mar 08:07:17 ntpd[1510]: logging to file /var/