We don't intend to change anything. Their decrees are meaningless. They don't provide the ntp traffic, they only provide DNS records. As written, those rules are designed to let the people at ntp.org impose a punishing policy against those they don't like.
Those rules do not improve time distribution. It is just control freak behaviour. > To OpenNTPD developers, > > You use pool.ntp.org in the default configuration of the OpenNTPD > daemon since 2004, but that is not compliant with the web page of > the pool.ntp.org project designated to software vendors and operating > system vendors, http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/vendors.html : > > > You must absolutely not use the default pool.ntp.org zone names as > > the default configuration in your application or appliance. > > > You can choose either to implement a full ntpd server or a simpler > > SNTP implementation. A few more pointers and ground-rules: > > * Only use the pool.ntp.org hostnames designated to you > > (typically {0,1,2,3}.{vendor}.pool.ntp.org) > > > Open Source projects are of course particularly welcome to use the > > pool in their default setup, but we ask that you get a vendor zone > > when using the pool as a default configuration. > > > In addition, the URL you use in comment corresponds to the public > support services website of the NTP Project which "produces a reference > implementation of the NTP protocol" and not to the pool.ntp.org > project which maintain the DNS records used by softwares, OpenNTPD, > the NTP Project's daemon, and others. > The main page of www.pool.ntp.org (or maybe the "How do I use the > pool.ntp.org?") seems to be more helpful to users to understand the NTP > pool and to configure continental zone or country zone in their daemon. > > Regards, > > -- > Jean Rebiffe
