Comment 20 for bug 104525

It would be useful to have multiple servers listed.

Here is a machine, over in Australia.

ntpq> peers
     remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter
==============================================================================
*europium.canoni 193.79.237.14 2 u 49 64 377 331.811 -207.01 36.624

The impact of the significant delay and jitter is that ntp will prefer to step the time rather than slew it.

This means that I get dovecot (and other things) complaining about time moving backwards (http://wiki.dovecot.org/TimeMovedBackwards) fairly regularly.

It would be useful if Canonical could have a second, or third, machine in a different data centre also configured to provide NTP service and then have the default configuration updated to reduce the occurance of this problem.

Thanks,
Anand