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Authored by: Lucky_Strike on May 23, '02 08:39:22AM

"I wanted to switch these because npt was asking for a DNS resolution before Bind was up and running."

I presume that you were seeing a pause at start up because of this - well if so then the easy way around it is to put the IP of the ntp server into the Network Time prefs panel. The Euro server is 17.72.133.54 you can ping the names to get the rest. Simply highlight any of the names and type the IP in place of it. It'll stick but won't appear as an option in the pull-down list. I suspect that there's a plist somewhere for the names that appear anyway. The result is that at start up ntp doesn't need to resolve the name so doesn't have to wait for bind.

LS



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Authored by: smkolins on May 23, '02 12:57:16PM

I was indeed seeing a pause during startup. I agree putting in the IP address would work but using a public ntp server by its IP address is something they specifically often suggest you don't do.



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