Evandro Menezes wrote:
> On Sep 28, 3:03 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal
> Murray) wrote:
> 
>> One good time would be when the server stops responding.
>> Or sends you a kiss-of-death packet.  It might take
>> some special DNS hacking to answer the question "Is this
>> server still in the pool?"
> 
> It seems to me that it doesn't make sense to keep tied to IP addresses
> when certain events occur, and KOD or unreachable are certainly good
> opportunities to resolve names again, with perhaps beneficial side-
> effects to the NTP pool.
> 
> It would work pretty well too if an option such as openNTP's "servers"
> were added.  I find that if one day all someone has to do is to
> specify "ntp" for the "servers" options and thus get a bunch of the
> ISP's NTP servers, it's going to be a better day than today.

Check out the pool configuration option:
pool us.pool.ntp.org

for example.

Danny
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