On 10/03/2010 23:19, David Magda wrote: > On Mar 10, 2010, at 03:25, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > >> In the meantime, your comments made me realize, that I can circumvent >> this problem by adding the ntp pools to my /etc/hosts file. > > Up to a point: using DNS, the results round-robin--which helps the > server operators--and dead servers are also removed from the pool > automatically (AFAIK). > > You'll lose the latter with a static host table, which may affect things > if things break upstream.
I checked that. I just added the IPs of the pools. As soon as I get online, the pools still serve me different IPs every time. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"