Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:27:29 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: David Magda <dmagda@ee.ryerson.ca> Cc: FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears Message-ID: <4B981CD1.2000202@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <6B11D99B-AD2E-4B4E-A35F-9938D11992D3@ee.ryerson.ca> References: <4B9601D9.5030101@bsdforen.de> <20100309210949.F85436@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <4B964A7C.6010709@bsdforen.de> <20100309133045.GA7232@icarus.home.lan> <20100309133322.GA7362@icarus.home.lan> <4B975765.1080907@bsdforen.de> <6B11D99B-AD2E-4B4E-A35F-9938D11992D3@ee.ryerson.ca>
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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 the > server operators--and dead servers are also removed from the pool > automatically (AFAIK). > > You'll lose the latter with a static host table, which may affect things > if things break upstream. I checked that. I just added the IPs of the pools. As soon as I get online, the pools still serve me different IPs every time. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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