The following is from my logwatch email:
--------------------- XNTPD Begin ------------------------
XNTPD Killed: 7 Time(s)
XNTPD Started: 8 Time(s)
Total interfaces 8 (non-local: 4)
Total synchronizations 6 (hosts: 1)
Errors
getaddrinfo: "0.centos.pool.ntp.org" invalid host address, ignored: 2 time(s)
getaddrinfo: "1.centos.pool.ntp.org" invalid host address, ignored: 2 time(s)
getaddrinfo: "2.centos.pool.ntp.org" invalid host address, ignored: 2 time(s)
---------------------- XNTPD End -------------------------
Yet from this host I get:
# host 0.centos.pool.ntp.org
0.centos.pool.ntp.org has address 208.53.158.34
0.centos.pool.ntp.org has address 69.50.219.51
0.centos.pool.ntp.org has address 108.76.168.145
So what is NTP doing here; why the errors for getaddrinfo?
Or is this nothing more than 2 out of some many times getaddrinfo failed, but worked just fine enough to count?