john heasley wrote:

> this is PR lib/25892.  Not sure what the problem is, but it appears
> to actually be occuring within the libc resolver.
> 
> you can likely work around by rolling your libc back to ~12.117 or
> using addresses instead of names in your ntpd.confg.

   Okay. I've now confirmed that this bug doesn't occur when I
use addresses rather than hostnames in the ntp.conf file.  Hrm.
I'll see if I can't figure out where this is going awry...

   Thanks!

                              - Chris