ntpd problems since upgrading to 5.3 - found the problem!

[Christian Hiris]

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On Tuesday 18 January 2005 07:19, Ian Moore wrote:
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> Now I'm not sure what the best way to get around this would be. I run a
> caching name server on the machine, so I guess I can tweak it to force
> localhost.foo.com resolve to 127.0.0.1

I'm running ntpd and a caching nameserver on one machine, too. The external IP 
is only referenced by /etc/hosts. My bind holds only the internal networks, 
including it's own localhost. There also could be some influence from 
your /etc/resolv.conf, but I'm not sure about.  

# dig localhost.matrix.net

; <<>> DiG 9.3.0 <<>> localhost.matrix.net
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 47348
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;localhost.matrix.net.          IN      A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
localhost.matrix.net.   3600    IN      A       127.0.0.1

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
matrix.net.             3600    IN      NS      ns.matrix.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns.matrix.net.          3600    IN      A       192.168.123.1

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.123.1#53(192.168.123.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Jan 18 07:27:54 2005
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 87


# cat /etc/resolv.conf
search matrix.net
nameserver 127.0.0.1


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