Yesterday I added "server recommendations" to the zone browser on
www.pool.ntp.org.Hmmm. How about doing a machine readable form of this
Wow, this idea is so obvious in retrospect, why didn't we think of it
before? A web service for NTP configuration.
Have a single well known URL, say http://www.pool.ntp.org/my_servers,
that dynamically serves back a working ntp.conf for naive clients. Then
when a distribution like Debian configures an NTP client it can make a
quick call to the service and use the configuration data we supply them.
The neat trick is that you can generally identify the location of the
requestor from the IP address. So no need for the client to request the
servers for a specific zone; the web service can do that for them.
I thought initially we could serve up a whole ntp.conf, but I think that
raises some trust issues since ntpd writes to files named in the conf
file. So maybe just a server list?
I agree with Adrian that mucking with maxpoll isn't worth it. The place
to change that is the ntpd distribution.
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