Speaking of misrepresenting... In the response you link, "abh" agreed about a specific point in "Poettering's reasoning": Lennarts reasons for not using *

Speaking of misrepresenting... In the response you link, "abh" agreed about a specific point in "Poettering's reasoning": Lennarts reasons for not using *.systemd.pool.ntp.org ("systemd isn't a distribution") makes sense to me. This is very different than agreeing that hard-coding a set of NTP servers into the code base is the way to go. To this point, "abh" wrote: I'd suggest having no default NTP servers in the systemd code... Which is what many others have requested as well. If this were an isolated decision, it would be a different thing. But it is not, as several others in this thread have provided supporting evidence[1]. 1 - https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=761658 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=761658