Daniel Frank writes: > Hello, > > Am Mittwoch, 1. April 2015, 09:22:55 schrieb Harlan Stenn: > > So I'm thinking that we might want to add an option to ntpd that would > > periodically send a message (do a DNS lookup?) to the pool DNS servers > > to ask "Is XXX still a recommended pool server?" and if the answer is > > "no" we'd drop that association and spin up a new one. > > I believe ntpd already has that function: > http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/confopt.html#pool > > It is hard to find additional information in the documentation, especially > information about how exactly this works.
The 'pool' directive is how ntpd initially *finds* servers from the pool. Once found, they are used until ntpd decides they are "bad", and it throws out the bad ones and solicits new servers. Please open a bug report describing what you would like to see improved in the documentation. H _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
