Re: Opinions on chrony? (was: Re: chrony)

[Gerd Hoerst <gerd@hoerst.net>]

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Hi !

on my ipfire is use it since 4 or 5 weeks.. but i also have to use

https://github.com/dorchain/dcfshm

because i use a gude usb II dcf clock.

(on my 2 raspberry pi  i use gpsd an pps signal)

So do i have to create a second package for this ?

Ciao Gerd

Am 31.12.2020 um 13:38 schrieb Tapani Tarvainen:
> I would prefer switching to chrony, primarily because it is indeed
> better with intermittent connections. NTS would be nice, too, but
> of little practical value at the moment.
>
> But I don't see it all that important or urgent, ntpd works well
> enough for almost all, so I would not prioritize it very high.
>
> Tapani Tarvainen
>
> On Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 11:56:21AM +0100, Peter Müller (peter.mueller(a)ipfire.org) wrote:
>> Hello development folks,
>>
>> since Gerd has worked on chrony, which is believed to be more robust in case of unstable
>> internet connections (which possibly affects some IPFire users) than ntpd is, I eventually
>> thought whether or not replacing ntpd with chrony was worth the effort.
>>
>> 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 public NTS servers,
>> and probably some others do so as well, but I really would like to have a decentralised
>> pool before switching to NTS.
>>
>> Any thoughts on this?
>>
>> Thanks, and best regards,
>> Peter Müller