On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 12:04:04PM +0000, Harlan Stenn wrote: > I'd love to see discussion about "what should the default number of > servers queried be for the 'pool' directive?"
The "How do I use pool.ntp.org?" page [1] is pretty clear, quoting: Be friendly. Many servers are provided by volunteers, and almost all time servers are really file or mail or webservers which just happen to also run ntp. So don't use more than four time servers in your configuration, and don't play tricks with burst or minpoll - all you will gain is extra load on the volunteer time servers. > There is clearly a tradeoff, and I'm inclined to say that "between 5 and > 9" is probably a good number. Ok, but examples of ntpd configuration using pool.ntp.org should follow their policy. Maybe you can convince them to change it. Do you think the servers are ready to handle twice as many clients? [1] http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/use.html -- Miroslav Lichvar _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions