Why on Earth is "alexjones.radio" set as one of the default Chrony NTP sources?!

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  1. #!/usr/bin/env sh
chronyc sources -v

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  2.   .-- Source mode  '^' = server, '=' = peer, '#' = local clock.
 / .- Source state '*' = current best, '+' = combined, '-' = not combined,
| /             'x' = may be in error, '~' = too variable, '?' = unusable.
||                                                 .- xxxx [ yyyy ] +/- zzzz
||      Reachability register (octal) -.           |  xxxx = adjusted offset,
||      Log2(Polling interval) --.      |          |  yyyy = measured offset,
||                                \     |          |  zzzz = estimated error.
||                                 |    |           \
MS Name/IP address         Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample               
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^+ pool.ntp0.cam.ac.uk           2  10   377  1013  -1059us[-1382us] +/-   13ms
^+ 193.57.144.50                 2  10   377   639  -3536us[-3536us] +/-   12ms
^- uk-lon2.alexjones.radio       2  10   377   363    -87us[  -87us] +/-   30ms
^* 183.ip-51-89-151.eu           2  10   377   754   +271us[  -74us] +/- 9261us

Surely it’s not “the Alex Jones”?

It’s gotta not be. It’s got to.

  1. nixcraft.com/t/1107/5 ↩︎

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I doubt the site has anything to do with that fat American trash!

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@leigh123linux, in retrospect, seems so. I did some sleuthing, and he’s actually quite a normal bloke. :laughing:

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I suspect that rather than that domain “being a default”, what happened is that whoever runs the NTP server for that domain added it’s IP address as a member of pool.ntp.org …

From there Chrony selects a few servers:
When you list them it looks up the reverse DNS as configured for the IP, which is what you see.

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