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Feature #5985

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ntp pool command

Added by Derek Schrock almost 9 years ago. Updated about 8 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Jim Pingle
Category:
NTPD
Target version:
2.4.0
Start date:
03/12/2016
Due date:
% Done:

100%

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Description

For future ntp (FreeBSD 10.2+ ntpd 4.2.8p3) usage would it be possible for the web interface to support the pool command (http://doc.ntp.org/4.2.6/manyopt.html#pool)?

Setting multiple servers you run the risk of them not being valid time sources. This is partially mitigated if you're using hosts from the ntp.org's pool project however all to this would go away if you use the pool command.

With ntpd's pool the client's maxclock will be used to set the number of possible peers and bad peers will be rotated out as needed with a since pool line in ntp.conf (https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ntp.conf&sektion=5).

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 #1

Updated by Jim Thompson almost 9 years ago

  • Assignee set to Jim Pingle
  • Target version set to 2.3.1
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 #2

Updated by robi robi over 8 years ago

+1 for this

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 #3

Updated by Jim Pingle over 8 years ago

I've tried this manually and couldn't get any working result from it. Does anyone happen to have a working example of an ntp config with the pool command working as they expect, for comparison?

ntpd accepted the directive but it never did sync up with anything when I tried.

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Updated by Derek Schrock over 8 years ago

Jim Pingle wrote:

I've tried this manually and couldn't get any working result from it. Does anyone happen to have a working example of an ntp config with the pool command working as they expect, for comparison?

ntpd accepted the directive but it never did sync up with anything when I tried.

You need to add an extra restrict line for pool:

From my ntp.conf:

...
   restrict source limited kod
   ...

You can find the reasoning here http://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2010-April/026304.html

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 #5

Updated by Chris Buechler over 8 years ago

  • Target version changed from 2.3.1 to 2.3.2
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 #6

Updated by Chris Buechler over 8 years ago

  • Target version changed from 2.3.2 to 2.4.0
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 #7

Updated by Jim Pingle about 8 years ago

  • Status changed from New to Feedback
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100
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 #8

Updated by Jim Pingle about 8 years ago

  • Status changed from Feedback to Resolved

Tested on a few systems, works fine.

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