Re:“Systemd should not default to using time{1,2,3,4}.google...
by Merovius on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @08:36AM
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> ...to provide a correction to someone saying pools can't be used.
Yes. Someone claimed (correctly), that *.pool.ntp.org can't be used. abh ammended that by saying, that however, a vendor zone can be used. I don't think anyone ever doubted that point. Notably, Lennart seemed to be aware of that point in his earlier mail.
> That's something that LP appears to have considered. I'm not sure why that isn't done.
The reason given before was, that tests and similar need some values. However, a PR implementing exactly this solution is currently in discussion (and afaik Lennart has not respondet to that yet). I would wait until the dust is settled on that, before I continue this discussion. The bug report (which is afaik the first time anyone has indicated that the Google servers shouldn't be used for this) is half a day old, that's basically nothing in FOSS-development (especially for a non-critical issue like this). Give it some time, if this isn't solved in a week, that may be a more appropriate time for pointing fingers and being unpatient.
Yes. Someone claimed (correctly), that *.pool.ntp.org can't be used. abh ammended that by saying, that however, a vendor zone can be used. I don't think anyone ever doubted that point. Notably, Lennart seemed to be aware of that point in his earlier mail.
> That's something that LP appears to have considered. I'm not sure why that isn't done.
The reason given before was, that tests and similar need some values. However, a PR implementing exactly this solution is currently in discussion (and afaik Lennart has not respondet to that yet). I would wait until the dust is settled on that, before I continue this discussion. The bug report (which is afaik the first time anyone has indicated that the Google servers shouldn't be used for this) is half a day old, that's basically nothing in FOSS-development (especially for a non-critical issue like this). Give it some time, if this isn't solved in a week, that may be a more appropriate time for pointing fingers and being unpatient.