Re: ntpdate hangs on 4.99.33

	That almost sounds like some kind of dns issue. Almost as
if
libnswitch wasn't timing out and falling to the next lookup
type.  What
does your nsswitch.conf look like?  What happens if you put
files ahead of
dns for hosts?  Does ntpd then start?  Ntpdate does a gob of
host lookups
when it starts, even if you specify only one host on the
command line,
because if it can't resolve that, it tries a bunch of
poolx.ntp.org host
lookups.

-Brian
On Oct 15,  7:47pm, "Steven M. Bellovin" wrote:
} Subject: Re: ntpdate hangs on 4.99.33
} On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:36:05 -0700 (PDT)
} Paul Goyette <paulwhooppee.com> wrote:
} 
} > This is interesting!
} > 
} > I had a similar problem with ntpd (NOT ntpdate) when
I moved from
} > 4.99.29 to 4.99.31, but only when ntpd was invoked
during startup;
} > it would successfully start up later on, but
consistently hangs if I
} > executed it during normal startup.
} > 
} 
} I have such problems (i386) if I type anything in single
user mode and
} then go multi-user...
} 
} 
} 
} 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbi
a.edu/~smb
>-- End of excerpt from "Steven M. Bellovin"

On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:18:02 -0700
buhrowlothlorien.nfbcal.org (Brian Buhrow) wrote:

> 	That almost sounds like some kind of dns issue. Almost
as if
> libnswitch wasn't timing out and falling to the next
lookup type.
> What does your nsswitch.conf look like?  What happens
if you put
> files ahead of dns for hosts?  Does ntpd then start? 
Ntpdate does a
> gob of host lookups when it starts, even if you specify
only one host
> on the command line, because if it can't resolve that,
it tries a
> bunch of poolx.ntp.org host lookups.
> 
I don't know what's started; I can't get a useful prompt
after that...
I'd in fact speculated that it was more of a disk issue.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbi
a.edu/~smb