On Apr 5,  4:47pm, smb@cs.columbia.edu ("Steven M. Bellovin") wrote:
-- Subject: Re: ntpd dumping core on restart

| >Hmm, ok. Try commenting out the get/setrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK) calls
| >in /usr/src/dist/ntp/ntpd/ntpd.c. It could be running out of stack...
| >
| 
| That seems to work.  I'm still at a loss to explain why ntpd fires 
| up at boot time, but not thereafter.

Because the nameserver returns fewer/different results when it starts
up because it times out?

christos