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From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
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Subject: Re: NTP - default /etc/ntp.conf
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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
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