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Date:      Mon, 8 Apr 1996 00:51:19 +1000 (EST)
From:      michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au>
To:        louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   xntpd .. which addresses to listen on
Message-ID:  <199604071451.AAA05233@asstdc.scgt.oz.au>
In-Reply-To: <199604071359.JAA01073@whizzo.transsys.com> from "Louis A. Mamakos" at Apr 7, 96 09:59:54 am

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Louis A. Mamakos writes:

> What has this to do with ttys?  It's conceivable that you might have an
> external reference clock (GPS, WWVB, etc) which is sending you timestamps
> periodically.  It would be nice to be able to handle these in the same
> sort of way.

Speaking of xntpd, it would be nice if this adopted a similar mechanism as
named to determine the addresses of all the interfaces in a machine.
Specifically, to include alias addresses. 

At the moment, you may have an alias IP number under the same domain name
but in another subnet from the primary. ntp clients will fail (approx) half
the time depending entirely on how quickly the DNS rotates between 'A'
records. This is not useful for an intended accurate time reference,

	michael




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