[pkg-ntp-maintainers] Bug#731594: Bug#731594: Bug#731594: debian-installer: time synchronisation should be installed by default

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 10:22:33AM -0700, Bdale Garbee wrote:
> Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox at debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Servers that rarely (re)configure network or boot, can also setup cron
> > to call to ntpdate or install an NTP client daemon when they are first
> > configured.
> 
> FWIW, calling ntpdate from cron is a *horrible* idea.

I would like to make it clear that we should *never* run something
that updates the time from cron.  That would have as effect that
all clients will query the time at about the same time causing a
massive overload of the ntp servers.  If you run that against the
ntp pool I believe that would be reason for having
*.debian.pool.ntp.org getting disabled.


Kurt