NTP

Comment 41 for bug 1567540

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Christian Ehrhardt  (paelzer) wrote : Re: ntp crashes everytime the network goes up or down.

Hi,
thanks for the extra info.
But that is just "more of the same".

We will have to pass the stage from "agreeing something is wrong" to "understanding or at least reproducing what is wrong".

To help us getting closer to recreation of the issue it would help if you could share:
1. your /etc/ntp.conf
2. Output of "route -n" and "ifconfig -a"
3. A description of your network setup and what might be special - like:
  - are you heavily firewalled
  - often disconnected
  - or anything else?

BTW - the likely reason it crashes everytime your net goes up/down is because there is a hook to refresh ntp time once a new connection is available (ifup/ifdown). But that is just what triggers it - we need to understand why it crashes. Another chance could be - as seen in your log - that there are many issues resolving dns names and othe networking related things - maybe after "too much" of that ntp runs into a bug.