Martin Burnicki <martin.burni...@meinberg.de> wrote: > I bet the "server" options for pool servers are in there because this > was used in earlier versions before the "pool" keyword was introduced, > and it still works. > >> instead, and I'd have to look up when the 'pool' directive was put in >> there. > > IIRC this is supported in 4.2.6, but has not been supported in 4.2.4p8 > and earlier. If the ntp.conf file shipped with a particular OS has been > initially created a long time ago and always been updated for newer NTP > versions then I'm not surprised to see this.
Sure. When the ntp.conf would have been included in the ntpd distribution and would only have required small patches like including the distributor name in the config lines for pool servers, the distributor would have archived those as a local patch and any changes/updates in the ntp.conf would appear in the packaged versions as well. It is only because all the work of creating an ntp.conf has been placed on the distributor that those distributors do not update it for every change or feature in the program. They don't have the resources to track all changes in all packages they distribute. > I'm sure a single sample ntp.conf file shipped with the NTP tarball, > which is checked/updated before an NTP release to reflect enhancements > like the "pool" command would definitely help. Indeed. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
