Comment 4 for bug 1278365

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> 1. Where are you find a privacy issue? Please read the docu at

The issue is based in the name and origin of the target server. Calling ntp.ubuntu cleary tells what kind of OS you are using.
This is an increasing issue today

> 2. The use of ntp.ubuntu.com is IMHO the availability of the ntp - service. Ubuntu can not guarantee the availability of other service providers over the entire term.

I did not intent to propose the use of usual public ntp servers. Ubuntu should use a canonical server, but ths server should maybe be used by other clients to to prevent identivication of the System.

> 3. It is easy to change the ntp server eg via dhcp

This does not change that most Systems will still have this issue. Therefore it should be solved by changing the defult behavior.

> We already point people at the NTP pool:
>
> $ cat /etc/ntp.conf
> ...
> server 0.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org
> server 1.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org
> server 2.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org
> server 3.ubuntu.pool.ntp.org
> ...

Yes that is correct, but it still contains a pool of ntp servers only used by Ubuntu correct?
The Issue might be rendered irrelevant if there are non Ubuntu systems using the ubuntu ntp pool as well.