2 ntpd (5.3-STABLE-SNAP001)

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 17:15:18 +0000
> From: Colin Percival <cperciva at freebsd.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> 
> Thomas Krause wrote:
> > when starting ntpd at boot time, I've 2 ntpd's running:
> > [...]
> > Any idea why? I' running 5.3-STABLE-SNAP001.
> 
> 1. You have some host names in ntp.conf which need to be resolved, and
> 2. At the time ntpd starts, the resolver isn't running.
> 
> For some reason, ntpd makes one attempt to look up names in DNS and then
> goes into an infinite loop.

Good idea. Yes, the DNS resolution in ntpd is really, really stupid. I
always specify addresses in ntp.conf for this reason and the fact that
it there are multiple addresses only the first returned will be
tried. It never fails over if that one is dead. (And, should an IPv6
address be available on a system that does not have IPv6
connectivity...).
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman at es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634