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From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: bugs (and fixes) for Ultrix 4.1
Keywords: swap gethostbyaddr lossage
Message-ID: <27DF2367.16576@orion.oac.uci.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 91 07:16:55 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.050932.7864@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Organization: University of California, Irvine
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In article <1991Mar14.050932.7864@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> metcalf@masala.lcs.mit.edu (Chris Metcalf) writes:
> [lots of stuff deleted]
>We've also been having some problems with ntp in which the clock
>stops absolutely dead after the last "select peer" syslog output.
>I'm hoping this had to do with the gethostbyaddr() bug.

I don't think so.  I've seen it on my DS 5000 (using the ntp from
louie.udel.edu, not DEC's) too.  The ntpd daemon doesn't use
gethostbyaddr().


Mike Iglesias
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