* Aaron Stellman  [2008-09-11 23:50]:

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> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:21:29PM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:

> > * Henning Brauer  [2008-09-10 10:39]:

> > > ntpd -s will time out eventually, but the 'eventually' might be

> > > painfully far away. it's the dns routines that block and cause these

> > > problems. i know how to fix this but haven't found the time to do so

> > > yet. maybe i get a chance on the flight later today. maybe.

> >

> > didn't find too much time on the flight, but finished this morning.

> >

> > basically, move dns to its own process. the parent process is just not

> > allowed to block no matter what. the dns process can drop privs but

> > not chroot.

> >

> Hello,

> It's very nice, now it takes around ~20 secs or so to timeout in the

> following scenarios:

more like 15, and if you want it different, you change
#define  SETTIME_TIMEOUT         15      /* max seconds to wait with -s */
in ntpd.h :)
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