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On Mar 10, 2010, at 03:25, Dominic Fandrey wrote:

> In the meantime, your comments made me realize, that I can circumvent
> this problem by adding the ntp pools to my /etc/hosts file.

Up to a point: using DNS, the results round-robin--which helps the  
server operators--and dead servers are also removed from the pool  
automatically (AFAIK).

You'll lose the latter with a static host table, which may affect  
things if things break upstream.