On 2021-06-25, Jim Pennino <[email protected]> wrote: > chris <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 06/25/21 04:08, Jim Pennino wrote: >>> William Unruh<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> <snip old stuff> >>> >>>> I suspect it is the number of times that ntpd tries to contact the >>>> server and fails rather than the time that is important. You could try >>>> putting the server offline and then online again (I use chrony so do not >>>> remember if ntpd has that option). >>> >>> No, it doesn't. >>> >> >> You could use a one line cron script to restart every day, week, >> whenever... > > Or for $14/machine I could use a USB GPS, my machine with PPS GPS, and a > public server that does not request use of DNS.
You could try specifying the server by IP rather than by name, so DNS is not needed. Of course this rule out using pool, unless you put them in by IP. DNS is just used to translate names to IP, so if you use IP, then DNS is not needed. > > _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
