Bug 105300 - Consider making pool.ntp.org the default ntp server
Summary: Consider making pool.ntp.org the default ntp server
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 114268
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Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Network (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other All
: P5 - None : Enhancement
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Assignee: Hendrik Vogelsang
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Reported: 2005-08-17 18:33 UTC by Michael Wolf
Modified: 2005-09-02 09:53 UTC (History)
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Description Michael Wolf 2005-08-17 18:33:22 UTC 
http://www.pool.ntp.org/
Comment 1 Hendrik Vogelsang 2005-08-22 15:51:55 UTC 
erm we have no default ntp server. Could you elaborate that a bit?
Comment 2 Michael Wolf 2005-08-22 16:23:15 UTC 
Right - currently there is no default.  I think making pool.ntp.org be the
default would be a useful enhancement.
Comment 3 Ulrich Windl 2005-08-23 10:01:52 UTC 
I think using some random servers (three at least, please) is better than
nothing, but you have no guaranteed "service level": The server may be a PC that
can die any time, or maybe serve the wrong time, or whatever. From my very short
experiments I saw that nslookup returns a different address every query, and not
every hour (as documented). Also every query returns multiple addresses.
It would well be worth a try, but the default should be in YaST rather than in
/etc/ntp.conf. I'd suggest to use the description "use a random set of NTP
servers" to activate the feature, because that is what your get.
BTW: The initial description is really quite verbose ;-)
Comment 4 Hendrik Vogelsang 2005-09-02 09:53:11 UTC 
will be done in yast later..

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 114268 ***