Interfaces: Link to discussion on netbsd-users

[Hal Murray]

esr at thyrsus.com said:
> Thanks.  The essential point (bind reacquisition failing after droproot) is
> not NetBSD specific and is worth keeping in mind. 

I think it works (on Fedora).  My test case is closing the lid on a laptop, 
waiting a while, then opening it.

16 Apr 02:21:50 ntpd[636]: Deleting interface #4 wlp2s0b1, 192.168.1.100#123, 
interface stats: received=1189, sent=1259, dropped=0, active_time=10601 secs
...
16 Apr 02:21:50 ntpd[636]: Deleting interface #5 wlp2s0b1, 
fe80::864b:f5ff:fe39:244a%3#123, interface stats: received=0, sent=0, 
dropped=0, active_time=10601 secs
16 Apr 02:21:57 ntpd[636]: Listen normally on 6 wlp2s0b1 192.168.1.100:123
16 Apr 02:21:57 ntpd[636]: Listen normally on 7 wlp2s0b1 
[fe80::864b:f5ff:fe39:244a%3]:123
16 Apr 02:21:57 ntpd[636]: new interface(s) found: waking up resolver
16 Apr 02:23:57 ntpd[636]: 74.120.8.2 132a 8a sys_peer
16 Apr 02:23:57 ntpd[636]: 0.0.0.0 0613 03 spike_detect -0.190987 s
16 Apr 02:24:14 ntpd[636]: 129.250.35.250 141a 8a sys_peer

I think stock Fedora restarts ntpd in that case.  I think I patched something 
to let it keep running, but I can't find any notes on what I did.




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