[time] More Aggressive Server Prunning Redux
der Mouse
mouse
Tue Feb 26 17:27:09 UTC 2008
> I think what's most interesting about this is we've found a case
> where the pool's simple scoring mechanism isn't enough to identify an
> obviously bad server. [...] OTOH, it's only 300ms off. For casual
> users who ask one server for the time, this one's close enough to be
> useful.
So it's *not* really "an obviously bad server". It may not be good
enough for you - certainly isn't for me - but, as you point out, time
geeks like us use multiple references so we can toss out a host like
this as a falseticker. But for the sort of person who just uses the
pool, it probably is quite good enough, and thus shouldn't be thrown
out. (Yet - if it's drifting, it'll get worse. But it'll also get
thrown out.)
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