Gargoyle Forum

I recently tried updating the list of NTP servers that Gargoyle uses to a different set of servers. Oddly, in succession to my placing them in the order I desired them to be, Gargoyle upon saving my updates reversed the order!?!

What I entered (in the exact order) in the GUI:

time.nist.gov
time.apple.com
0.pool.ntp.org

What I saw in the /etc/config/system file after saving:

list server '0.pool.ntp.org'
list server 'time.apple.com'
list server 'time.nist.gov'

I then logged out of the router's GUI, cleared the browser's cache, logged back in and went to the NTP page and saw this as the order (which makes sense given the wrong /etc/config/system file's entries being in reverse order too):

0.pool.ntp.org
time.apple.com
time.nist.gov

This I think is a bug!

ntpd does not care about the order of servers, so in this case, a harmless bug.

I have corrected the underlying issue regardless.

Lantis wrote:ntpd does not care about the order of servers, so in this case, a harmless bug.

I have corrected the underlying issue regardless.

Well, I am glad to hear it is getting corrected (if for no other reason to avoid confusing people unnecessarily). However, I do know that ntpd does (or at least used to, the last time I checked) try to find the best server to use based on measurements it took of all servers supplied. I presume by your comments that is still the case.

That is correct