Re: CVS commit: src/etc

[Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Alan Barrett wrote:

> On Thu, 28 Jul 2011, Marc Balmer wrote:
> >Modified Files:
> >     src/etc: ntp.conf
> >
> >Log Message:
> >Remove duplicate (but commented out) entries.
> 
> I think the duplicates were deliberate.  The idea is that names 
> like foo.pool.ntp.org are associated with many IP addresses, 
> and if you use the name twice then you get two of the many IP 
> addresses.

That's correct.  The original intent of this:

 # Northern U.S.A
 #server                ca.pool.ntp.org
 #server                us.pool.ntp.org
-#server                us.pool.ntp.org

 # Northern Europe
 #server                de.pool.ntp.org
-#server                de.pool.ntp.org
 #server                dk.pool.ntp.org

was two servers in the US and two servers in Germany.

That said, the current wisdom says that we should use
N.<country>.pool.ntp.org which we do indeed do at the
bottom of our current file.  I'll adjust our NTP conf
to match that.

Cheers,
Simon.