From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Tremer To: development@lists.ipfire.org Subject: Re: Opinions on chrony? (was: Re: chrony) Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:31:17 +0000 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============6269901626202706175==" List-Id: --===============6269901626202706175== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, I would like to give my 2 cents on this: I have compiled chrony for IPFire 3 many years ago until I wanted to use it i= n a semi-production setup and realised that there were features missing that = I needed. Mainly that it was only a client and could not serve time to the ne= twork back then. I believe that these things have now been resolved and that chrony would be a= better choice now since it has a much more modern code base. Dropping chrony for ntp should be a low-hanging fruit since we do not use any= special features and the NTP confirmation file is very short. That behaviour= and feature set should be possible to recreate very easily. My bigger concern is adding additional functionality like NTS. We would have = to add more UI for that, which might be a lot of work. Maybe someone will vol= unteer for that? Big plus point is the self-made configure script. Can=E2=80=99t wait to run i= nto all those problems. > On 31 Dec 2020, at 10:56, Peter M=C3=BCller wr= ote: >=20 > Hello development folks, >=20 > since Gerd has worked on chrony, which is believed to be more robust in cas= e of unstable > internet connections (which possibly affects some IPFire users) than ntpd i= s, I eventually > thought whether or not replacing ntpd with chrony was worth the effort. >=20 > Another motivation would be chrony's support for NTS, however, there is no = thing like a > distributed NTS pool as of today. Cloudflare and Netnod are providing publi= c NTS servers, > and probably some others do so as well, but I really would like to have a d= ecentralised > pool before switching to NTS. I believe we can switch to chrony without supporting NTS from the first momen= t. > Any thoughts on this? Gerd & Peter, are you going to take this on as your project? > Thanks, and best regards, > Peter M=C3=BCller -Michael --===============6269901626202706175==--