Re: Bug#397649: install-report: NTP sync missing by default
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 04:10:40PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
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> On Nov 22, 2006, at 1:05 PM, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
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> >reopen 397649
> >thanks
> >
> >Could we have NTP by default?
> >
> >> But it would be a problem for the minority who have no or only
> >> intermittent (e.g. dial-up) network access.
> >
> >Why would it be a problem?
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> No network mean the "Network Time Protocol" won't work.
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> Intermittent network (e.g. dial-up) means that NTP goes for long
> periods with no connection to the external time servers. The ntpd
> daemon is (mostly) OK with that, but some auto-dialers may see it's
> occasional polls as a reason to dial the ISP, which is probably not
> what the user expected.
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>
Instead of NTP you could use chrony which gets put offline with poff.
Doug.
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