On 20/02/15 18:46, Roger wrote: > On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:45:54 +0000, Roger > <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: > >> After about 11 minutes it has dropped one, leaving 6 servers. >> I'll continue to monitor and report back. > > Just to recap, I now have this in my ntp.conf: > > pool 0.uk.pool.ntp.org > pool 1.uk.pool.ntp.org > pool 2.uk.pool.ntp.org > pool 3.uk.pool.ntp.org > > After five hours ntpd is using the same 6 servers. Perhaps > because all of the peerstats have been less than 3 milli- > seconds ntpd is quite happy even though the reach of one of > the servers isn't always 377.
Using dig on a sample of the pool it seems that DNS queries to the pool only ever return 4 entries. So if ntpd relies on there being around 10 servers for some of its monitoring capabilities to kick in then we seem to have a bit of a disconnect. _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
