On Fri, 20 Feb 2015 23:56:46 GMT, Brian Inglis
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Add iburst preempt to the ends of your pool server lines to
>improve startup and drop poorer sources.

I'm only making one change at a time. That will come later.

Using one pool line ntpd slowly increases the number of servers
until it is happy but hasn't dropped any, not even an obviously
rogue one. As DNS only returns 4 IP addresses that is the
maximum it can start with and why it has to build up its
numbers.

Using multiple pool lines ntpd starts with more than it needs
and after about 10 minutes starts dropping the ones it doesn't
like.

I restarted ntpd this morning. It solicited 13 servers all of
which showed up in ntpq. After 10 minutes it started dropping
servers. After 49 minutes it had dropped 7 servers. It would be
useful if one of the remaining 6 goes rogue to see what, if
anything, ntpd does.
-- 
Roger

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