[LinuxPPS] another annoying NTP "feature"

Paul paul at lavender-fam.net
Wed Jun 2 08:56:17 CEST 2010


I get the same if I build from source or if I use the Debian version.
It's obviously something I can handle, just as soon as I puzzled out
what was happening.

On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 21:17 +0000, Dave Hart wrote:
> Actually NTP doesn't control the parsing of your /etc/resolv.conf --
> it simply uses the RFC 2553 interface getaddrinfo() and it's up to
> your system to decide how to resolve names (and it may not even
> involve DNS -- some use NIS or LDAP via /etc/nsswitch.conf).  I don't
> know why you saw different behavior from ntpd than from other programs
> on your system -- perhaps they were built differently (not by you)?
> 
> Cheers,
> Dave Hart




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