[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#455717: Bug#455717: still in sid

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 09:48:45PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> The original problem was with the etch version. I corrected the
> version information. The problem remains in sid.

I can't reproduce your problem in testing/sid.  I have peers that need
to use the new interface that comes up and it just works for me.

> NEWS says that ntpd "periodically" scans for new interfaces. The
> period seems to be quite high though. After 10 minutes, it has still
> not picked up the new route. Given standard network timeouts,
> a scan every 30 seconds is about where I'd put the upper bound.

As far as I know, the periond is 5 minutes.  For ntp this is a relative
small time.  I think in most case the peer needs to be alive for atleast
500 seconds before ntpd will consider using it's time to synchronise
too.  And to be really useful you need longer polling intervals.


Kurt