bug#27759: NTP pool vendor zone

[Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>]

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On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 02:59:14PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 10:40:20PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:
> > > They recommend we apply for a vendor zone instead [2]. We would not have
> > > to run our own NTP servers.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know if GNU or the FSF have a vendor zone we could use?
> > > Otherwise, we should apply for one and adjust our ntp-service.
> > 
> > Apparently 1.gnu.pool.ntp.org does not exist, so I suppose we can apply
> > for one.
> > 
> > I’ll email the GNU maintainer list to let them know and double-check.
> 
> Based on that discussion, I've applied for guix.pool.ntp.org.

The DNS for {0,1,2,3}.guix.pool.ntp.org is live, and the attached patch
is working for me.

I think we should document that I am the administrative contact for the
"zone". Any suggestions for where to document that?

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From e8fd9d703dba134dab7f008951e68d11d3d2ca21 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2017 20:43:40 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] services: ntp: Use the NTP pool via the 'guix' zone.

* gnu/services/networking.scm (%ntp-servers): Use *.guix.pool.ntp.org.
---
 gnu/services/networking.scm | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/services/networking.scm b/gnu/services/networking.scm
index c38158189..b52af69b4 100644
--- a/gnu/services/networking.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/networking.scm
@@ -335,9 +335,10 @@ Protocol (DHCP) client, on all the non-loopback network interfaces."
 
 (define %ntp-servers
   ;; Default set of NTP servers.
-  '("0.pool.ntp.org"
-    "1.pool.ntp.org"
-    "2.pool.ntp.org"))
+  '("0.guix.pool.ntp.org"
+    "1.guix.pool.ntp.org"
+    "2.guix.pool.ntp.org"
+    "3.guix.pool.ntp.org"))
 
 \f
 ;;;
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