[PLUG] ntpd and subnet

[Louis Kowolowski]

On Jun 26, 2014, at 2:00 PM, wes <plug at the-wes.com> wrote:

>> ...
> 
> These are two different issues. One being, whether ntpd continues running
> after its first invocation. I don't have any comment on that, you'll just
> have to look at your process list and see for yourself.
> 
> The other being what happens when a network-dependent service starts before
> the network starts. Usually when a service or application starts up, it
> looks at the available network interfaces and selects which are appropriate
> to use. It then goes on about its business, continuing to use whichever
> network interface(s) it selected at startup. If the network landscape
> changes afterwards, the service or application usually doesn't see this and
> will need to be restarted.
> 
Something I’ve seen in the past, just because a script has executed doesn’t mean the network is up :-)
Sometimes networks take a while to come up, or they come up, go down, and then come up again.
Frequently, one has to break things into very tiny steps when debugging.

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