Alan Barrett wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Marc Balmer wrote: > >Modified Files: > > src/etc: ntp.conf > > > >Log Message: > >Remove duplicate (but commented out) entries. > > I think the duplicates were deliberate. The idea is that names > like foo.pool.ntp.org are associated with many IP addresses, > and if you use the name twice then you get two of the many IP > addresses.
That's correct. The original intent of this: # Northern U.S.A #server ca.pool.ntp.org #server us.pool.ntp.org -#server us.pool.ntp.org # Northern Europe #server de.pool.ntp.org -#server de.pool.ntp.org #server dk.pool.ntp.org was two servers in the US and two servers in Germany. That said, the current wisdom says that we should use N.<country>.pool.ntp.org which we do indeed do at the bottom of our current file. I'll adjust our NTP conf to match that. Cheers, Simon.