[ntp:questions] losing time fast

Rob nomail at example.com
Fri Jul 13 12:16:18 UTC 2012


David Taylor <david-taylor at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> wrote:
> On 13/07/2012 10:00, Rob wrote:
> []
>
>> The pool DNS server, when you use "pool pool.ntp.org" or "server pool.ntp.org",
>> lookup your IP address in a location database and give you a server from
>> the country you are residing in.  No need to use uk. or nl. anymore, that
>> is only a leftover from the past.
>
> Thanks, Rob.
>
> I just altered the PC to use the pool without the uk., and it seems to 
> me that the selected servers have a greater delay than those I got using 
> uk.pool, and I got two .nl servers.  I'll leave it like that for a 
> while, as avoiding the country-specific addresses should be good for 
> that PC, in principle.

Well maybe I should add it does not work as well when you use DNS servers
that are not specific to the provider you use to access the internet.

So when you assign everything using DHCP you should be fine, but when you
use 8.8.8.8 as a DNS server it might be less optimal.



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