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From: jerry@olivey.olivetti.com (Jerry Aguirre)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp
Subject: Re: xntp funny
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Date: 29 Nov 90 18:55:58 GMT
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In article <k2.659693555@woodstock> k2@charly.bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Klaus Steinberger) writes:
>Sometimes ypserv returns NULL on a getservbyname.

>The bug will be reproducible by a simple programm calling getservbyname
>in and endless loop. Run it twice, and the bug appears.

I have also seen the same problem.  Does anyone have a fix for ypserv?