On 4-May-04, at 1:35 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> The particular problem case is us.pool.ntp.org, which selects among a
> large set of servers.  I suppose I could write a little daemon that
> queries for it (and other important servers) after things are booted,
> and changes the "static" entries in /etc/hosts...

At the risk of causing offense, is there another nameserver you can put 
at the bottom of your resolv.conf?

Maybe your ISP's?