Jim Pennino wrote:
Anyway, the bottom line is that if the pool is your only source of time
and if there is a DNS failure for a sufficiently long time, you will
lilely not have any source of time afterwards.

That's what the 'pool' configuration keyword is for. If one of the pool servers that were detected at startup becomes unreachable, ntpd tries to detect a new server of the pool. See:

http://doc.ntp.org/current-stable/confopt.html#pool

and:

http://doc.ntp.org/current-stable/discover.html#pool

Martin

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