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From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>
Subject: Re: NTP packet routing problem
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On 2002-Jan-17 01:06:57 -0500, Harlan Stenn <Harlan.Stenn@pfcs.com> wrote:
>It might also be the NTP associations - ntpd makes it associations based on
>the IP of the local machine, and if your PPP link goes down/up and you get a
>new IP then ntpd will continue to attempt to communicate using its old
>IP address (association).

I'm using static IP addresses so that's not it.

>OBTW, if you are using PPP connections for NTP it's probably a good idea to
>use both the "burst" and "tinker huffpuff 7200" (more or less) things in
>your ntp.conf file.

Thanks for that.  I've enabled "burst", but I missed the "huffpuff".

Peter

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