Re: Pseudo-pools

Miroslav Lichvar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.time.chrony.user
Message-ID <ZOMhp7pMBxBk2hBg@localhost>
On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 10:02:24AM -0400, Josef 'Jeff' Sipek wrote:
> Suppose that there are 5 NTP servers, A-E.  Unfortunately, the admins didn't
> set up a convenient pool DNS alias.  (Well, technically they made an alias
> but it includes all their servers while I'd rather restrict it to their
> servers "near me".)  Is there a way to tell chrony "use 3 of these 5
> servers"?  If there was a pool, it'd be trivial:
> 
> 	pool pool.example.com maxsources 3
> 
> I'm imagining something like:
> 
> 	pseudopool A B C D E maxsources 3

That's not possible with the current chrony code and I don't see a
simple way to implement it.

> I could make a pool from these under my domain, but I'd rather keep NTP
> things in one place - chrony.conf.

I'd suggest to specify it in /etc/hosts.

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar


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