Comment 1 for bug 674868

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Milan Bouchet-Valat (nalimilan) wrote :

Thanks for raising this issue, but as I understand it, the only right way to solve this is to fix bug 104525. As a temporary improvement, we can simply remove Stratum 1 (and possibly 3) from our list, but how many servers would be left? We should definitely be using a custom NTP pool and leave the list empty by default.

If you want this fix to happen, please get the file from [1], remove servers you think should not be present, and attach it here. I'll take care of committing this upstream. Else, I don't think there's a chance somebody will work on it... And if you want to spend your time on even more useful tasks, I guess you should contact pool.ntp.org so that they set up a GNOME or Ubuntu pool, and then we can use this as the default, after asking the security team. ;-)

BTW, I'm setting the importance to Low because by default, the bug doesn't happen, and I don't think many people play with their NTP servers without knowing the name of a correct server they want to use.

1: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-system-tools/plain/src/time/ntp-servers-list.c