Bug 54564

Summary:	Using netselect to choose ntp server from *.pool.ntp.org in /etc/init.d/ntpd
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Martin von Gagern <Martin.vGagern>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	SpanKY <vapier>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.pool.ntp.org/
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Patch to /etc/init.d/ntpd adding the choose_servers function

Description Martin von Gagern 2004-06-20 14:55:15 UTC

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
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Comment 1 Martin von Gagern 2004-06-20 14:56:16 UTC

Created attachment 33679 [details, diff]
Patch to /etc/init.d/ntpd adding the choose_servers function

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2004-07-17 22:55:48 UTC

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
##