I had some issues with my master ntp server not getting in sync to well
and all other equipment sync to it, get very often deny updates because
of source out of sync. This master sync about 2 thousands other time
devices, witch is not a big load by any mean what so ever.
Then looking at it more, I saw some source getting out of sync, etc.
Then looking at the reference at ntp.org, I came across this:
http://www.pool.ntp.org/vendors.html
Quote "You 'must absolutely not use the default pool.ntp.org zone names'
as the default configuration in your application or appliance."
So, I changed my pool to us.pool.ntp.org and it is now getting back in
sync and operate better. There is even sub zone in that us zone itself too.
So, it goes from the top, to like
north-america.pool.ntp.org
then sub to
0.north-america.pool.ntp.org
1.north-america.pool.ntp.org
2.north-america.pool.ntp.org
3.north-america.pool.ntp.org
And sub to
us.pool.ntp.org
then sub to
0.us.pool.ntp.org
1.us.pool.ntp.org
2.us.pool.ntp.org
3.us.pool.ntp.org
So, shouldn't the default configuration change to address their
requirements and to make it more user friendly?
I just came across this when looking as to why my master wasn't holding
time as well as it used to do.
