Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 09:51:17 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Frank Behrens <frank@ilse.behrens.de> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, roberto@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTP - default /etc/ntp.conf Message-ID: <20090605235117.GB3235@mavetju.org> In-Reply-To: <200906051424.n55EOIrM012619@post.behrens.de> References: <20090605124428.GA85576@mavetju.org> <200906051424.n55EOIrM012619@post.behrens.de>
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Hello Frank, On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 04:24:18PM +0200, Frank Behrens wrote: > Edwin Groothuis <edwin@freebsd.org> wrote on 5 Jun 2009 22:44: > > After pondering at conf/58595, I came with this text. > > > > The ntpd is not enabled by default, so the fact that the servers > > are commented out should not be an issue. > >... > > +# server pool.ntp.org > > +# server pool.ntp.org > > +# server pool.ntp.org > > Isn't it better to use different entries? > server 0.pool.ntp.org > server 1.pool.ntp.org > server 2.pool.ntp.org > > To be sure that the IP addresses are different. > See > http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/use.html You are right, I was under the impression that 0, 1, 2 would give a single A record. I only checked for the geographical closeness of the pool.ntp.org results. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis Website: http://www.mavetju.org/ edwin@mavetju.org Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/
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