From: Miroslav Lichvar Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 11:28:40 +0000 (+0200) Subject: doc: update faq.txt X-Git-Tag: 1.30-pre1~50 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fd03d823f2d2536d671d85420db49ea090990a3d;p=thirdparty%2Fchrony.git doc: update faq.txt --- diff --git a/faq.txt b/faq.txt index 7cc00dd1..030a4f89 100644 --- a/faq.txt +++ b/faq.txt @@ -107,24 +107,6 @@ file. This configuration will be better because * if your external connection goes down, the computers on the LAN will maintain a common time with each other. -S: Addressing issues -Q: I get the following error message : "Could not get IP adress for localhost" -Add a line like the following to your /etc/hosts file - 127.0.0.1 localhost - -Q: I have problems if I put the names of my NTP servers in the chrony.conf file. -If you have no connection to the Internet at boot time, chrony won't be able to -turn the names into IP addresses when it starts. There seem to be 2 solutions: - -1. Put the numeric IP addresses in the chrony.conf file -or -2. Put the server->IP address mappings in your /etc/hosts file and ensure that - /etc/host.conf reads 'order hosts,bind'. - -The problem is that chronyd (currently) isn't designed in a way that allows -hostname->IP address lookups during normal operation. I hope to work on this -problem very soon. - S: My computer is not synchronising. This is the most common problem. There are a number of reasons, see the following questions.