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Date:      Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:09:09 +0000
From:      Rafal Lukawiecki <raf@rafal.net>
To:        Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
Cc:        freebsd-cloud@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Duplicate entry in AWS FreeBSD 12.0 ntp.conf
Message-ID:  <2E3D9ACA-0ACE-4305-BE35-80B50236E154@rafal.net>
In-Reply-To: <010001690816f97a-13e5dc2c-f96e-40fc-a3e2-65e7f5c9a7c6-000000@email.amazonses.com>
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Thank you, Colin!

Rafal

> On 19 Feb 2019, at 23:28, Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com> wrote:
>=20
> On 2/19/19 2:48 PM, Rafal Lukawiecki wrote:
>> I have just noticed that ntp.conf that comes in the AWS AMI for =
FreeBSD-12.0 (releng/12.0/usr.sbin/ntp/ntpd/ntp.conf 337649 2018-08-11 =
17:42:42Z brd) lists the AWS =E2=80=9Cserver=E2=80=9D twice, once on =
line 50, then again on line 96. I am not sure if that is on purpose, but =
it can lead to some confusion if one got changed but not the other.
>=20
> Oops.  Not intentional, just an erroneous sed script.  Fixed in =
r344315.
>=20
>> On another note, is there a reason to use chrony instead of ntpd if =
using the AWS ntp source, ie. 169.254.169.123?
>=20
> Nope.  Chrony is what Amazon uses and it's what they recommend for =
anyone
> starting from a blank slate; but I discussed this with them and they =
agreed
> that since we ship with ntpd already installed it makes far more sense =
to
> use what we already have.
>=20
> --=20
> Colin Percival
> Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
> Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly =
paranoid




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