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From: baird@antrim.rdg.dec.com (Alasdair Baird)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: bugs (and fixes) for Ultrix 4.1
Keywords: swap gethostbyaddr lossage
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.125248.17194@hollie.rdg.dec.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 12:52:48 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.050932.7864@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <27DF2367.16576@orion.oac.uci.edu>
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In article <27DF2367.16576@orion.oac.uci.edu>, iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:
|> 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().

I gather this one is a kernel "feature" fixed subsequent to V4.1.


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