[ntp:questions] More Granularity in the US in the NTP Pool

Jason Rabel jason at extremeoverclocking.com
Tue Sep 11 18:29:01 UTC 2007


> What Henk has described is just the first step in a  facility that I 
> have been thinking about for quite some time. The idea is to allow a
> much more extensive level of self-organizing emergent NTP behavior.
> But the ability of get this type of incremental behavior is
> crucial to getting it to work.

Brian,

Perhaps rather than trying to implement in NTP itself via some new
command(s) you could make a helper app that communicates with NTP in a
similar manner to ntpq & ntpdc? It could then run as its own daemon or maybe
even just a cron job.





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