Bug 1183624

Summary: support for pool directives in chronyd and ntpd
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar>
Component: system-config-dateAssignee: Nils Philippsen <nphilipp>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 22CC: AprilVRose, nphilipp, pnemade, pualleedd
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Description Miroslav Lichvar 2015-01-19 10:43:58 UTC 
Description of problem:
With new ntpd and chronyd versions that are planned to be included in Fedora 22, the default configuration files will likely be changed to use the pool directive instead of server. This is used to specify a group of NTP servers where unreachable servers are replaced automatically. Instead of the four individial servers specified in the config 

server 0.fedora.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 1.fedora.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 2.fedora.pool.ntp.org iburst
server 3.fedora.pool.ntp.org iburst

there will be just one pool directive

pool fedora.pool.ntp.org iburst

It would be nice if system-config-date supported this. I'm not sure what would be the best way to present this to the user, maybe a checkbox for each entry that would switch between pool and server? Or resolve the name and see if the name resolves to multiple IPv4/IPv6 addresses to select it automatically?
Comment 1 Miroslav Lichvar 2015-02-02 14:13:33 UTC 
Created attachment 987113 [details]
Add support for pool directive to system-config-date

Display four servers with the same name for each pool directive. When writing config, count servers with the same name and select pool or server directive as appropriate.
Comment 2 Miroslav Lichvar 2015-02-02 14:16:54 UTC 
The pool directive is now used in the default chrony.conf (chrony-2.0-0.2.pre1). 
The name used is 2.fedora.pool.ntp.org, because it's currently the only one returning IPv6 addresses.

ntp will follow after update to 4.2.8.
Comment 3 Jaroslav Reznik 2015-03-03 16:44:18 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 22 development cycle.
Changing version to '22'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_Program_Management/HouseKeeping/Fedora22
Comment 4 April 2015-06-19 14:25:08 UTC 
*** Bug 1226568 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 12:40:58 UTC 
Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
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