[Fedora-spins] Change ntp sync servers in Spin BrOffice.org

Igor Pires Soares igorsoares at gmail.com
Mon Jul 26 19:06:48 UTC 2010


Em Dom, 2010-07-25 às 22:56 -0500, Bruno Wolff III escreveu:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 16:47:32 -0300,
>   Wolnei <wolnei at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > One person of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee talked with me on
> > event, because they have a new Stratum1 ntp servers and he spoken with all
> > distributions with local versions to use them. I like this idea because is
> > more quickly synchronize with one ntp server here in Brazil then one outside
> > our country and i believe this will useful for our users.

> > What do you think about it?
> 
> It will need an exception to policy.
> Even though this particular spin is tightly coupled to Brazil, people may
> use it outside of Brazil.
> 
> As far as I can figure out, attempts to find your location are done before
> you are handed the ip address for an ntp server. So I think changing this
> is a bad idea. Rather having this group join the group providing ntp in
> Brazil is a better option.

As the maintainer of the BrOffice.org Spin I think that the "upstream"
approach is the best solution. It seems to me that joining the ntp pool
will be more appropriate than change it in the kickstart file.

Regards
-- 
Igor Pires Soares
BrOffice.org Spin Maintainer
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Igor



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