Rick Moen <[email protected]> writes:

> Quoting Trent W. Buck ([email protected]):
>
>> If you have systemd, and you don't need to be an NTP *server*,
>> consider "systemctl enable systemd-timesyncd" instead.
>> This is installed but off by default in Debian 8;
>> AIUI it will be the default in Debian 9.
>
> *cough*  Yes, stretch does indeed have this enabled by default.
> On new systems, I'm inclining towards openntpd, http://www.openntpd.org/ .
>
> Of course, this is for the use-case of wanting to have a functional
> ongoing ntp daemon,

Fair enough.

It sounds like your use case is different from the OP's.

> not just a Microsoft-style SNTP client with no error checking,
> authentication, no tracking of jitter or delay, no ability to consult
> more than one NTP server, and no precaution against adjusting the time
> jumps backwards, which is what systemd-timesyncd is.

Erm, as at v215 at least some of that appears to be false.

/etc/systemd/timesyncd.conf's variable is "Servers" not "Server",
though I can't find timesyncd.conf.5 to tell me why.

I see logs like this:

2015-10-24T01:34:13+1100 het systemd-timesyncd[265]: Timed out waiting for 
reply from 10.128.0.1:123 (ntp).
2015-10-24T02:08:21+1100 het systemd-timesyncd[265]: Using NTP server 
10.128.0.1:123 (ntp).
2015-10-24T02:08:21+1100 het systemd-timesyncd[265]: 
interval/delta/delay/jitter/drift 2048s/-0.005s/0.000s/0.008s/-63ppm
2015-10-24T02:42:29+1100 het systemd-timesyncd[265]: 
interval/delta/delay/jitter/drift 2048s/+0.000s/0.000s/0.007s/-63ppm
2015-10-24T03:16:37+1100 het systemd-timesyncd[265]: 
interval/delta/delay/jitter/drift 2048s/-0.005s/0.000s/0.003s/-64ppm
2015-10-24T03:50:46+1100 het systemd-timesyncd[265]: 
interval/delta/delay/jitter/drift 2048s/-0.006s/0.000s/0.004s/-66ppm

I can't be arsed RTFSing for more details.

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