From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 22:27:31 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C087D1065674 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:27:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de) Received: from mail.bsdforen.de (bsdforen.de [212.204.60.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E4918FC19 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:27:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mobileKamikaze.norad (unknown [88.130.200.31]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CD9A8A17F9; Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:27:30 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B981CD1.2000202@bsdforen.de> Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:27:29 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100302 Thunderbird/3.0.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Magda 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> In-Reply-To: <6B11D99B-AD2E-4B4E-A35F-9938D11992D3@ee.ryerson.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: ntpd does not re-query servers, when a new interface appears X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:27:31 -0000 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?