Many former participants of the NTP pool have stated that they continue with lingering NTP clients after they left the pool.
The reason for this is that ntpd never tries to resolve an IP address (assuming that *.pool.ntp.org was used) ever again. Therefore, clients which are seldom rebooted, will stick to the same NTP servers for a long time. I was wondering if it would make sense to open some windows when ntpd could resolve the addresses again. One such window would be when ntpd steps the time, which puts it into a state perhaps similar to when it's started. I imagine that such a new resolution of addresses for the NTP servers in the pool would also help distributing the load among them more fairly. Thoughts? _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
