State of the blocker bug

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> I think it's important to split work on this into several areas.
> 
> The first is the simple no-DNS (and hence no-pool) case.  This is the 
> important case.
> 
> How long does it take to get started when ntp.conf has 3 or 4 server slots 
> specified by IP Address?  The interesting case is using iburst, but we should 
> probably collect data for the non-iburst case too, just for reference.
> 
> Case two would be the same setup using DNS and a local /etc/hosts file.
> 
> Case three would be using the pool.

We should meter all of these, yes.

However, I discagree that the no-DNS case is the important one.  The vast
majority of ordinmary users go to the pool. It's the hand-tuned setups that
are the exception.

Thus, the most urgent bug right now is clawing back the performance lost in
"DNS bug fixing/cleanups". Please give that priority.  Tuning the other cases
(and fixing iburst so that it's no longer a no-op) can wait.
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