[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#556465: ntp: default config for pool servers should not use iburst

[Douglas F. Calvert]

Package: ntp
Followup-For: Bug #556465


I think this bug should be closed. There are a lot of old ntp bugs lying around and this should not be one of them.


The official wiki page recommendations for configuring ntp for use with p.n.o recommend the use of iburst:
http://support.ntp.org/bin/view/Support/ConfiguringNTP


The main ntpd doc page says:
    "Most applications will probably want to specify the iburst option with the server command":
    http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/ntpd.html

More official recomendations
   "The iburst option described later on this page is recommended for clients, as this speeds
   up initial synchronization from several minutes to several seconds.":
   http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/assoc.html

In an email describing some new pool directive features Dave Hart (ntp dev) uses iburst in his example config:
https://lists.ntp.org/pipermail/questions/2010-April/026304.html


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.1.0-rc7-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages ntp depends on:
ii  adduser      3.113          
ii  dpkg         1.16.1         
ii  libc6        2.13-21        
ii  libcap2      1:2.22-1       
ii  libedit2     2.11-20080614-3
ii  libopts25    1:5.12-0.1     
ii  libssl1.0.0  1.0.0e-2       
ii  lsb-base     3.2-28         
ii  netbase      4.46           

Versions of packages ntp recommends:
ii  perl  5.12.4-5

Versions of packages ntp suggests:
ii  ntp-doc  1:4.2.6.p3+dfsg-1

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/ntp changed [not included]
/etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ntp [Errno 2] No such file or directory: u'/etc/dhcp/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/ntp'
/etc/ntp.conf changed [not included]

-- no debconf information