[ntp:hackers] NTPv4 Brian Version

David L. Mills mills at udel.edu
Thu Aug 11 17:51:04 UTC 2005


Brad,

I don't think my plaint is getting through. In my case ten

server pool.ntp.org

lines returned the SAME address. This is only recently the case.

Dave

Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 11:48 AM -0400 2005-08-11, Brian Utterback wrote:
>
>>  Each of 0.pool.ntp.org, 1.pool.ntp.org, 2.pool.ntp.org should get
>>  you different sets of 8 addresses, and you could add the two letter
>>  country codes to get some more sets of 8:
>
>
>     Note that this works the way you would expect, most of the time. 
> However, there is some overlap in the pool -- servers that are in 
> us.pool.ntp.org are also valid for consideration in the master 
> pool.ntp.org zone, as well as the #.pool.ntp.org zones, so there is a 
> small chance that the same IP address may show up under different names.
>
>>  server 0.pool.ntp.org
>>  server 1.pool.ntp.org
>>  server 2.pool.ntp.org
>>  server us.pool.ntp.org
>>  server ca.pool.ntp.org
>>  server uk.pool.ntp.org
>
>
>     For the large country-code.pool.ntp.org zones, there are also 
> numbered sub-zones, for the same reasons.  In this case, 
> us.pool.ntp.org is one of those big country-code zones, so there is 
> also 0.us.pool.ntp.org, 1.us.pool.ntp.org, 2.us.pool.ntp.org, etc....
>



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