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Date:      Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:33:28 +0100
From:      "N.J. Mann" <njm@njm.me.uk>
To:        David Malone <dwmalone@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r195652 - head/etc
Message-ID:  <20090713063328.GA78384@titania.njm.me.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200907130551.n6D5pYoY012691@svn.freebsd.org>
References:  <200907130551.n6D5pYoY012691@svn.freebsd.org>

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In message <200907130551.n6D5pYoY012691@svn.freebsd.org>,
	David Malone (dwmalone@FreeBSD.org) wrote:
> Author: dwmalone
> Date: Mon Jul 13 05:51:33 2009
> New Revision: 195652
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/195652
> 
> Log:
>   1) Use our vendor domain at the pool.
>   2) Point people at the pool website and encourage
>      people to provide a server in the pool (as a
>      courtesy to the pool guys).
>   3) Fix a spelling.
>   4) Comment out the local clock and include a link
>      to documentation for use of the local clock on
>      the ntp.org site.
>   
>   Approved by:	re (kib)
> 
> Modified:
>   head/etc/ntp.conf
> 
> Modified: head/etc/ntp.conf
> ==============================================================================
> --- head/etc/ntp.conf	Mon Jul 13 01:37:48 2009	(r195651)
> +++ head/etc/ntp.conf	Mon Jul 13 05:51:33 2009	(r195652)
> @@ -13,19 +13,22 @@
>  #
>  # The following three servers will give you a random set of three
>  # NTP servers geographically close to you.
> -# See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTP_pool for details.
> +# See http://www.pool.ntp.org/ for details. Note, the pool encourages
> +# users with a static IP and good upstream NTP servers to add a server
> +# to the pool. See http://www.pool.ntp.org/join.html if you are interested.
>  #
>  # The option `iburst' is used for faster initial synchronisation.
>  # The option `maxpoll 9' is used to prevent PLL/FLL flipping on FreeBSD.
>  #
> -server 0.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
> -server 1.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
> -server 2.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
> +server 0.freebsd.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
> +server 1.freebsd.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
> +server 2.freebsd.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
> +#server 3.freebsd.pool.ntp.org iburst maxpoll 9
>  
>  #
>  # If you want to pick yourself which country's public NTP server
>  # you want sync against, comment out the above servers, uncomment

The above sentence seems very clumsy to me.  How about:

   # If you wish to choose which country's public server you want
   # to sync against, ...


Cheers,
       Nick.
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