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Re:“Systemd should not default to using time{1,2,3,4}.google... by dannyperson on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @06:54PM (#9815802)
The way I see it is:

* NTP Pool welcomes open source projects to use their servers

* They want vendors to register a vendor prefix

so there are two options, either systemd is a vendor, and can register and use systemd.pool.ntp.org, or it isn't, and can use pool.ntp.org

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Re:“Systemd should not default to using time{1,2,3,4}.google... by jlgaddis on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @08:15PM (#9816154)
They can use "the pool", i.e. the collection of NTP servers.

They could (register a "vendor zone") and use "[0-3].systemd.pool.ntp.org". They can, technically, even use "[0-3].pool.ntp.org", but the NTP Pool Project is saying they cannot use [the specific hostname] "pool.ntp.org".

That last part is what people are apparently not understanding.

Also, OpenBSD blatantly ignores it and uses "pool.ntp.org" anyways.

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