ntpd applet

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu Apr 7 00:32:11 UTC 2011


On Monday 04 April 2011 18:39, Sergey Naumov wrote:
> > How fast ntpdate fails when given non-existent server?
> ntpdate will fail in about 8 seconds with message "no servers can be
> found, exiting"
> 
> > Maybe be need to make timeout configurable? Say, -Q SECS?
> 
> For client running in foregroung it will be better to delete
> unreachable server from servers list we are trying to probe, but for
> current ntpd implementation where we assume that our client is run
> forever as a daemon (and so unexisting server can appear after some
> time passed), timeout is a good choise.
> 
> Sergey Naumov.

How about this?

http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=8e23fafadee75bbe275bb795d0b2c2121dad93e7 

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