[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#439734: ntp does not support the "dynamic" option in /etc/ntp.conf

Vincent Lefevre vincent at vinc17.org
Mon Aug 27 00:12:40 UTC 2007


Package: ntp
Version: 1:4.2.4p3+dfsg-1
Severity: normal

After I did an upgrade on 2007-08-17 (including to ntp 1:4.2.4p3+dfsg-1,
as said by /var/log/dpkg.log), I rebooted my machine with the Ethernet
cable unplugged. I noticed a few hours ago that ntpd had no peers; they
were probably discarded at startup time. My /etc/ntp.conf file (last
modified on 2007-05-10) has:

server 0.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst dynamic
server 1.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst dynamic
server 2.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst dynamic
server 3.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst dynamic

So, it seems that the "dynamic" option is still ignored or doesn't
work correctly (or there's some other bug, but I don't know the
reason).

Running '/etc/init.d/ntp restart' allowed to use NTP again.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-686-bigmem (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ntp depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.104      add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                         2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcap1                       1:1.10-14  support for getting/setting POSIX.
ii  libreadline5                  5.2-3      GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8e-6   SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.1-24     Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  netbase                       4.30       Basic TCP/IP networking system
ii  perl                          5.8.8-7    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

ntp recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information




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