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Subject:    Re: [opensuse] 10.2 system clock too fast and NTP
From:       John Andersen <jsa () pen ! homeip ! net>
Date:       2006-12-16 22:33:16
Message-ID: 200612161333.17216.jsa () pen ! homeip ! net
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On Saturday 16 December 2006 13:20, Leendert Meyer wrote:
> On Saturday 16 December 2006 23:03, John Andersen wrote:
> > Do you have one or several servers configured?  You should use as
> > many as 4 or 5, and <dons flamesuit> avoid the pools because they
> > have proven to be a single point of failure IMHO.  If you use a
> > pool, make sure you have at least two other clocks named
> > explicitly.
>
> How about the option "Use Random Servers from pool.ntp.org" in
> openSUSE 10.2? YaST puts {0,1,2}.pool.ntp.org in /etc/ntp.conf, of
> which the DNS-records change every hour.
>
> Or do you still stand by your advice I quoted?

That was exactly what my advice was referring to.  For some
reason that has never worked for me in a reliable way.  Perhaps
occasionally that url is unreachable or something.

I prefer selecting a server that I have known to be workable
and reliable.  

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John Andersen

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