On 11/21/2010 11:34 PM, Luigi Rosa wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Robert Moskowitz said the following on 22/11/10 01:51: > > >> Yet from this host I get: >> >> # host 0.centos.pool.ntp.org >> 0.centos.pool.ntp.org has address 208.53.158.34 >> 0.centos.pool.ntp.org has address 69.50.219.51 >> 0.centos.pool.ntp.org has address 108.76.168.145 >> >> So what is NTP doing here; why the errors for getaddrinfo? >> >> Or is this nothing more than 2 out of some many times getaddrinfo failed, but worked just fine enough to count? >> > Could be a temporary failure. > > Check actual ntpd status with ntpq -p > > In alternative you could use "generic" ntp public pool: > > server 0.pool.ntp.org > server 1.pool.ntp.org > server 2.pool.ntp.org > server 3.pool.ntp.org > > Or your local ntp public pool: go to http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/ choose your > geographic area from the table on top right of the page then your coutry. > > For instance, United States server pool configuration is > > server 0.us.pool.ntp.org > server 1.us.pool.ntp.org > server 2.us.pool.ntp.org > server 3.us.pool.ntp.org For all the fiddling I did to set up my own ntp servers for my net, I should have looked that little bit extra and done this part, rather than just use the Centos default ntp servers. thanks for the tip. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos