I have extended my ntpd init script to choose three close ntp servers from the pool provided by *.pool.ntp.org. In my /etc/conf.d/ntpd I simply set POOL=de.pool.ntp.org and have three nearby ntp servers entered in my /etc/ntpd.conf Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 33679 [details, diff] Patch to /etc/init.d/ntpd adding the choose_servers function
although this is a pretty good idea it suffers from some problems, the biggest of which is that the current implementation will keep adding server lines to ntp.conf i've updated the example ntp.conf file to no longer list the old URL's but to read this: ## # A list of available servers can be found here: # http://www.pool.ntp.org/ # A good way to get servers for your machine is: # netselect -s 3 pool.ntp.org ##
