[External Email] Re: Question about internal 'private' servers

[Hal Murray]

> One last question:  What does it take to define a POOL?  Is it just a DNS
> name that resolves to more than one IP, or is there something more? 

The general idea is that there are many servers in the pool and there is 
some smarts behind the DNS server that will rotate through the servers to 
spread the load (maybe not equally) and will monitor the available servers 
and not use any that are not responding or have a clock that is way off 
(aka broken).

More info here:
  https://www.ntppool.org/en/

The client side will try again later when it wants more servers and toss 
out a server from the pool when it stops responding.

If you look in your log files, you will probably find lots of clutter.

In your case, with only 2 servers in the pool, I would use 2 server lines 
rather than the pool.


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