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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Cc: 27759@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27759: NTP pool vendor zone
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 22:40:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmogma8b.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170718214256.GA20175@jasmine.lan> (Leo Famulari's message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2017 17:42:56 -0400")

Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> skribis:

> Currently our ntp-service uses the top-level NTP pool servers [0]:
>
> (define %ntp-servers
>   ;; Default set of NTP servers.
>   '("0.pool.ntp.org"
>     "1.pool.ntp.org"
>     "2.pool.ntp.org"))
>
> However, the NTP Pool project requests that operating system vendors
> (that's us!) don't use these servers directly [1]:

Oops!  I had read about this before and then forgot.

> 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.

Thanks,
LUdo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-19 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-18 21:42 bug#27759: NTP pool vendor zone Leo Famulari
2017-07-19 20:40 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-07-20 18:59   ` Leo Famulari
2017-07-30  2:43     ` Leo Famulari
2017-07-30 12:36       ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-07-31  0:28         ` Leo Famulari

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