Bug#375280: [pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#375280: ntpdate: only use one server by default

Peter Eisentraut peter_e at gmx.net
Sat Jul 29 18:14:29 UTC 2006


Wolf Wiegand wrote:
> At least for desktop machines, using multiple time servers is not
> necessary,

The functioning of the NTP protocol relies on more than one server or 
peer being available.  If you think that using one server is enough, 
you should probably not use NTP but consider a more light-weight 
alternative like rdate.




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