Once upon a time, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> said: > The one time I relied on the pool I lost sync a year later when all three > servers the configuration picked withdrew time services and the > still-running ntp client didn't return to the names to find new ones. > Wonderful if that's fixed now but the pool folks argued just as strongly > for using it back then.
Current versions of both ntpd and chrony support a "pool" config option as an alternative to the "server" option, and I believe both will monitor the reachability and quality of the sources and periodically refresh from DNS. -- Chris Adams <c...@cmadams.net>
