[BlueOnyx:11613] Re: 5108R Bug Report: NTP Settings

[Dogsbody]

> Yeah, it's a long story. According to RFC's hostnames must not start
> with a number. The checks of the GUI that verify a hostname or a FQDN
> therefore don't allow it. Of course there are some host and/or domain
> names in the wild that violate the RFCs.

Ahh gotta love the RFC's sometimes :-)

> Meh. Yeah, the extra NTP servers shouldn't be there. Must be some kind
> of a default that gets thrown in. I'll check that.

I'd actually say it's a really good idea to have NTP servers 
pre-populated for BlueOnyx.  As a SysAdmin there is nothing worse than 
comparing logs between systems that have different times on them. 
Perhaps the GUI could keep these defaults and have a textbox that 
allowed you to list multiple servers to edit them?

>> 3) Removing a valid timeserver from the GUI makes the server disappear
>> from the GUI but inspecting /etc/ntp.conf still shows the server as listed.
>
> The extra servers are still present? That's probably no surprise. What
> about the one you removed via the GUI? Is that gone then?

No, this is broken, if you remove a timeserver from the GUI then that 
very timeserver stays in the config file and doesn't get removed.  The 
extra servers also stay too.

Dan


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