[ntp:hackers] How many servers for a pool config line?

David J Taylor david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk
Wed Nov 11 09:54:34 UTC 2009


From: "Hal Murray" <>
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:35 AM
To: <hackers at lists.ntp.org>
Subject: [ntp:hackers] How many servers for a pool config line?

> 
> The current setup is 10 or as many as it can get from the DNS info.
> 
> Is 10 too many?
> 
>  Should ntpd log something if it can't get all 10?
>  Or tell you how many it got all the time?
>  Or tell you their IP Addresses?
>  Or ...
> 
> Things like 0.pool.ntp.org are currently returning 5 IP Addresses.
> 
> That feels good to me.  Maybe overkill.


I feel that 10 is too many, perhaps 4 or 5?

David
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