[Bug 548885] Re: ntp host name not found error

[Barry Fishman]

C de-Avillez <hggdh2 at gmail.com> writes:

> OK. I found the upstream bug on this. Please note that -- per upstream
> -- this is still open. The issue stems from a *non-working* DNS at the
> time NTP is triggered (most probably on boot).

The boot time issue is not what is happening for me.  Retarting the ntpd
daemon using the /etc/init.d/ntp script when DNS is known to be working
still fails.  Running it from the command line as previously mentioned
still fails.

Since I can get the upstream ntp-4.2.6 release to fail, I am going to
try to debug that rather than the 4.2.4p8 at 1.1620-0 lucid version, unless
you some need otherwise.  My guess would be it involves a memory leak,
although I would assume the code in deamon programs like ntpd are very
closely examined.  I can't otherwise explain why a program that works
from /home/util64/ntp-4.2.6/bin would fail when moved to /usr/sbin.

Nobody else seems to have the problem with Lucid, and there is a simple
fix to get it working, if someone else reports the problem.
-- 
Barry Fishman

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ntp host name not found error
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