Re: NTP.conf pool vs server
Hello,
On Wed, 2017-06-07 at 10:35 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 June 2017 08:56:59 ray wrote:
>
> > I would like to know the correct syntax for entering a server entry
> > for stretch.
> >
> > All the documentation I find says to list the ntp servers in the
> file
> > as: server 0.XX.pool.ntp.org
> > server 1.XX.pool.ntp.org
> >
> > An example source from 2017 is https://wiki.debian.org/DateTime
> >
> > When I open /etc/ntp.conf on my new stretch installation, I find
> this
> > format: pool 0.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst
> > pool 1.debian.pool.ntp.org iburst
> >
> > The latest Debian doc says to start the line with 'server'.
> > The latest Debian implementation starts the line with 'pool'.
> >
> > Are these interchangeable?
> >
> > Additionally, there is a parameter 'iburst' which I did not find in
> > the Debian docs but found at http://doc.ntp.org/4.1.1/confopt.htm
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ray
>
> Begin rant:
>
> From someone who is currently battling a fresh jessie install that
> didn't
> even come with ntpdate installed, and which using the above format
> in /etc/ntp.conf is still about 12 hours off on an rpi-3.
>
> Installing ntpdate and attempting to start it gets me a no servers
> found
> message, yet they are defined as discussed above, and the network is
> fully accessible to all other forms of communication.
$ sudo ntpdate -s pool.ntp.org
>
>
> That doc on www.ntp.org is nice, but worthless to someone who just
> wants
> it to work. I have quite a zoo of machines here, and I see little
> advantage to each one banging on a network server, when it needs an
> update. But does it give even a hint of how to make this machine,
> or
> heaven forbid, my router, which keeps time via ntp, and which I
> believe
> has the time broadcast enabled, (its dd-wrt in a buffalo box) into a
> server that the rest of my machines can listen to to get the correct
> time. If I could achieve that, it would reduce the loading on the
> time
> servers at debian or pool.ntp.org by a factor of 5 or 6 just from my
> home network.
>
> But a manpage that actually tells us how to do that must be sick
> bird,
> because its not been written yet. Man page writers please get real,
> and
> tell us how to do something like getting our home networks all
> synchronized to our routers which can then broadcast it to the rest
> of
> our network.
>
> Such a scheme can easily keep us on time with any errors within a
> few
> milliseconds, more than adequate enough for the girls I go with.
> While
> reducing the load on the servers by at least 80%.
>
> So how about a manpage that tells us how to do that? If its not
> illegal
> according to some rfc that is.
>
> Rant off.
>
> Thanks for reading.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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