On Saturday 16 December 2006 13:20, Leendert Meyer wrote:
> On Saturday 16 December 2006 23:03, John Andersen wrote:
> > Do you have one or several servers configured? You should use as
> > many as 4 or 5, and <dons flamesuit> avoid the pools because they
> > have proven to be a single point of failure IMHO. If you use a
> > pool, make sure you have at least two other clocks named
> > explicitly.
>
> How about the option "Use Random Servers from pool.ntp.org" in
> openSUSE 10.2? YaST puts {0,1,2}.pool.ntp.org in /etc/ntp.conf, of
> which the DNS-records change every hour.
>
> Or do you still stand by your advice I quoted?That was exactly what my advice was referring to. For some reason that has never worked for me in a reliable way. Perhaps occasionally that url is unreachable or something. I prefer selecting a server that I have known to be workable and reliable. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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