[time] peer group

[Eugene Smiley]

Chuck Swiger wrote:
> On Mar 13, 2007, at 8:30 AM, Kiss Gabor wrote:
>> I wonder if forming peer groups offers some benefits or not.
>> How peering affects offset or other quality parameters?
>> Is it worth to work on it?
> 
> Certainly it is worth configuring all of your local NTP servers to  
> query each other as peers-- having at least 5 servers set up helps  
> the NTP falseticker algorithm choose more stable clocks.  It's not  
> going to be a big problem if you don't set them up as peers, but it  
> will help....

It will benefit the group of servers if the servers have very little overlap in 
server configuration, but if all 5 point to the exact same servers it provides 
little. Make sure to set each server to a unique set of servers. This is where 
peering provides it's benefits.