The ntpd “pool” option has been working well since ntp-dev 4.2.7p249 in January of 2012, over a decade ago. It didn’t hit ntp-stable until 4.2.8 in December of 2014. It has been in NTPsec since the project began in 2015. This is a better option for both users and pool server operators than multiple…

This would be done through a pull request in the website code repository. Such a pull request already exists: Update HowTo on using the pool by penguinpee · Pull Request #218 · abh/ntppool · GitHub

I see now that this is a duplicate of Please recommend the decade-old "pool" command not "server" in ntp.conf

Yes, but my lack of markup skills make that first one have a very ugly example ntp.conf compared to this one. I did comment several times on the github pull request. I just hope someone finally updates the how to use the pool instructions to point to the much better way for users and server operat…

That first one was flagged as spam by several folks undoubtedly due to the unintentional screaming, so was hidden. I reposted here and would be fine with hiding the other one if I knew how.

[image] elljay: NTP Pool is effectively a one man band as far as making changes goes Dependency [image] Someday ImageMagick will finally break for good and we'll have a long period of scrambling as we try to reassemble civilization from the rubble. We n…

A “bus factor” of 1 is a serious information security concern. No project in that state has ever passed any of the security audits I’ve done. It’s a concern on its own, but it makes other critical security practices impossible (separation of privileges, encryption key management, ransomware remediat…

From Wikipedia "The “bus factor” is the minimum number of team members that have to suddenly disappear from a project before the project stalls due to lack of knowledgeable or competent personnel. " I would say the NTP pool has been in this state for years ---- but the scattered DNS servers not so …

Happy to help improve things, but as I said in the other thread I’ve tried to raise the issue with @ask in private and then in public many times, but I get no response. Zero, nada, nothing… It’s very embarrassing to see the emails from vendors behind the scenes saying “Hey my project is going live…

One man shows seem to be the norm with NTP.

Recommend the superior “pool" not “server” in ntp.conf

Server operators

elljay November 27, 2022, 4:43pm 6

Hi, NTP Pool is effectively a one man band as far as making changes goes, so the chances of getting anything done, however sensible and appropriate, before the next ice age is as close to zero as makes no difference…!

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Recommend the superior “pool" not “server” in ntp.conf

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