[156149] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: time-b.netgear.com/time-c.netgear.com dns queries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Loftis)
Fri Sep 7 22:01:10 2012
In-Reply-To: <23863.1347068161@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 20:00:37 -0600
From: Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>
To: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 7:36 PM, <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
....
> Interestingly enough, the *hostname* is still in use (by another machine under
> my desk) - and it gets near zero hits. So it's all hardcoded IP addrs not
> hostnames.
And for NTP implementations that use DNS they also often only check
DNS on startup too...and lots of people do not maintain their
servers...well, except netgear, which just hammers the bugger out of
everything (See OP)
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