Bug 241054

Summary:	Default Public NTP Server for Great Britain gives error unknown host.
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Forgotten User t-K-SYtr-p <forgotten_t-K-SYtr-p>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Katarina Machalkova <kmachalkova>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
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Found By:	Customer	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Forgotten User t-K-SYtr-p 2007-02-01 11:44:40 UTC

When setting up a Public NTP Server for a PC in Great Britain the server automatically offered is gb.pool.ntp.org. But that gives "Server is unreachable or does not respond properly" error message when the test button is pressed. Pinging gb.pool.ntp.org gives unknown host. Has been checked on two different PCs, clean install, dual boot with Windows XP.

Checking with www.pool.ntp.org the correct server address should be uk.pool.ntp.org


How to get there.

YaST, Network Services, NTP Configuration. In the Automatically Start NTP Deamon select during boot, continue past the warning message. In the NTP Server Configuration, next to the server Address box press select, click on Public NTP Server. Country shows Great Britain, Public NTP Servers box shows gb.pool.ntp.org (Great Britain)

My first bug report, hope this is ok.

Comment 1 Katarina Machalkova 2007-02-05 17:41:27 UTC

I wish there were more bug reports like this :-)

Now the situation with public ntp servers for Great Britain in YaST is somehow confusing. While available ntp server databases use shortcut UK, YaST takes country shortcuts and names from locale and there, GB is always used. As a result, all the ntp servers for Great Britain are listed under 'UK' and only (nonexisting) gb.pool.ntp.org is used for 'real' Great Britain

To avoid confusion, I'll merge these two lists. The only thing I'm not sure about is whether there is equivalence (UK <=> Great Britain).

Comment 2 Forgotten User t-K-SYtr-p 2007-02-05 21:32:48 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> I wish there were more bug reports like this :-)
> 
> Now the situation with public ntp servers for Great Britain in YaST is somehow
> confusing. While available ntp server databases use shortcut UK, YaST takes
> country shortcuts and names from locale and there, GB is always used. As a
> result, all the ntp servers for Great Britain are listed under 'UK' and only
> (nonexisting) gb.pool.ntp.org is used for 'real' Great Britain
> 
> To avoid confusion, I'll merge these two lists. The only thing I'm not sure
> about is whether there is equivalence (UK <=> Great Britain).
> 
As far as I'm aware they are the same from a time zone point of view.

Comment 3 Forgotten User t-K-SYtr-p 2007-02-05 21:43:24 UTC

Should have done Additional Comment, not reply, sorry.

Comment 4 Katarina Machalkova 2007-02-06 10:25:47 UTC

More than about time zone point of view, I was thinking more about 'political corectness' (in order not to make some northern Irish angry by listing Great Britain only ;-) )
Anyway, fixed in yast2-ntp-client 2.13.17 (2.15.1 for factory)

Comment 5 Forgotten User t-K-SYtr-p 2007-02-06 17:46:16 UTC

Thanks very much, I appreciate it.

Steve.