2 May
2019
2 May
'19
11:29 a.m.
Once upon a time, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> said:
The one time I relied on the pool I lost sync a year later when all three servers the configuration picked withdrew time services and the still-running ntp client didn't return to the names to find new ones. Wonderful if that's fixed now but the pool folks argued just as strongly for using it back then.
Current versions of both ntpd and chrony support a "pool" config option as an alternative to the "server" option, and I believe both will monitor the reachability and quality of the sources and periodically refresh from DNS. -- Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>