On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:18:02 -0700
buhrow@lothlorien.nfbcal.org (Brian Buhrow) wrote:

> 	That almost sounds like some kind of dns issue. Almost as if
> libnswitch wasn't timing out and falling to the next lookup type.
> What does your nsswitch.conf look like?  What happens if you put
> files ahead of dns for hosts?  Does ntpd then start?  Ntpdate does a
> gob of host lookups when it starts, even if you specify only one host
> on the command line, because if it can't resolve that, it tries a
> bunch of poolx.ntp.org host lookups.
> 
I don't know what's started; I can't get a useful prompt after that...
I'd in fact speculated that it was more of a disk issue.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb