[ntp:questions] pruning the pool?

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Thu Jul 15 16:27:41 UTC 2010


Hi--

On Jul 15, 2010, at 8:59 AM, hymie! wrote:
> Through what I presume is a fluke of the DNS randomization, three of
> my four hosts were:
> 153.16.4.139    .INIT.          16 u  390  512    0    0.000    0.000 4000.00
> 153.16.4.133    .INIT.          16 u  378  512    0    0.000    0.000 4000.00
> 153.16.4.140    .INIT.          16 u  384  512    0    0.000    0.000 4000.00
> 
> I tried searching the NTP web sites to figure out who maintains the NTP
> pools, and this was the best lead I got.  If these hosts are no longer
> offerring NTP, can they (and perhaps others in that same net block)  be
> removed from the pool?

They are no longer being scored high enough to be included in the pool:

  http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/153.16.4.133
  http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/153.16.4.139
  http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/153.16.4.140

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck




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