Since when do Linux distros host their own NTP?
Having a vendor zone in the pool is not about selecting a set of servers to use, its for mitigating the hard coded server issue.
The standard NTP pool gets used (usually).
Having a vendor zone in the pool is not about selecting a set of servers to use, its for mitigating the hard coded server issue.
The standard NTP pool gets used (usually).
Amazon Linux uses their own NTP server for EC2 instances (and a large number of distros on AWS use it too).
Android, the most popular linux distro in the world, uses Google's NTP servers rather than NTP.
ChromeOS, another quite popular linux distro, also uses Google's NTP servers.