The pool directive can be used to configure chronyd for a pool of NTP
servers (e.g. pool.ntp.org). The name is expected to resolve to multiple
addresses which change over time.
On start, a source will be added for each resolved address. When a
source from the pool is unreachable or marked as falseticker, chronyd
will try to replace the source with a newly resolved address of the
pool.
The minimum interval between replacements is currently set to 244
seconds to avoid frequent DNS requests.
When adding a server from configuration file, don't give up when the
first returned address was already added for another server directive,
but try adding other addresses until one succeeds.
With the recent change allowing unreachable sources to remain selected,
offline sources will now be selectable only for some time, similarly to
online unreachable sources.
Reachability is no longer a requirement for selection. An unreachable
source can remain selected if its newest sample is not older than the
oldest sample from all reachable sources.
This is useful to prevent reselection when an accurate source uses a
very short polling interval (e.g. refclock) and is occasionally
unreachable for short periods of time.
Add new source states and rename some states so there is one state for
each reason a source can be rejected in the source selection.
This fixes reported status when sources are selectable, but the actual
selection was postponed until next update. It will also allow more
detailed reports when the cmdmon protocol is updated.
Following RFC 5905, don't call REF_SetUnsynchronised() when there are no
reachable or selectable sources. It's up to the client to consider the
source unsynchronized when the root distance exceeds a threshold.
The unsynchronized status is still set when no majority is reached.
The next pointer in the last allocated reply slot was not set. This
could cause a crash when more slots were needed. (the slots are used to
save unacknowledged replies to authenticated commands)
