[ntp:questions] Does the pool directive automatically imply "preempt"?

David Taylor david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid
Wed Feb 6 16:42:24 UTC 2013


On 06/02/2013 13:02, Terje Mathisen wrote:
> David Taylor wrote:
>> Does the pool directive automatically imply "preempt" in recent versions
>> of NTP?
>
> It effectively does imply 'preempt', since a pool of servers (from a
> pool xyz statement) will be monitored and regularly filtered, replacing
> the worst servers with the results of a fresh dns lookup.
>
> Terje

Thanks, Terje.  That's what I thought, but got confused when some of the 
documentation suggested it was needed, or at least appropriate, for the 
"pool" directive.
-- 
Cheers,
David
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