In message <20050405205140.ABB672AC2D@beowulf.gw.com>, Christos Zoulas writes:
>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?
>

Mmm, could be.  In fact, in the past I've had to do strange and 
wondrous magic to make things pause after starting bind so that ntpdate 
could resolve things properly.

Anyway -- many thanks.


		--Prof. Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb