Re: Starting ntpd with no network

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:51:35 +0100, Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Do you specify DNS addresses or numeric IP addresses in your server statements? I believe that if a DNS lookup fails, it is not retried.

I used DNS names (that's the whole point of the DNS!). Now I can see
an older thread about DNS lookups failing but I can't access the bug
database at ntp.isc.org because of a MySQL error. It would be good if
this could be fixed otherwise there's no obvious ERROR message in syslog
to indicate that the computer is now running completely unsynchronised.
As a workaround I'll put IP addresses in my conf file for now ;-)

Andrew
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