[tech] NTP

[Michael Deegan]

Morning,

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:45:16AM +0800, Bob Adamson wrote:
> I'm no ntp expert, but from what I can tell, mooneye was looking at its 
> hardware clock for the time, instead of time.uwa.edu.au. It's hardware 

What I think can happen is on startup, ntp skips any servers it can't
resolve the IP for. Obviously this is a problem for machines that boot
while the network's down.

-MD

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