[ntp:questions] More Granularity in the US in the NTP Pool
Richard B. Gilbert
rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Fri Sep 14 00:28:09 UTC 2007
Harlan Stenn wrote:
>>>>In article <46E97DDD.6050404 at comcast.net>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>>>
>
> Richard> The quality of time and therefore the "best" servers depends
> Richard> strongly on the length of the network path between server and
> Richard> client.
>
> Why are you discounting traffic volume? I'm not saying you are wrong to not
> bring it up, but I wonder about it.
>
I'm not discounting traffic volume. I have no means to measure it and,
without some data, I hesitate to comment. It seems to me that there are
at least two ways in which traffic volume could affect NTP performance:
unrelated traffic on the network, and the traffic handled by a
particular server. I have seen what seems to be just generic traffic on
the network bollix up NTP performance. Many internet servers seem to
work a LOT better between 2200 and 0700 EST when the net seems to quiet
down.
With a broad band connection to the internet (cable, ADSL, T1, etc.) it
would take a LOT of traffic to affect NTP very much. Of course a few
thousand misbehaving clients can generate an awful lot of traffic!
> And as I understand it KOD doesn't help much, especially for miscreant
> clients.
I wouldn't know about KOD! I can't very well operate a public server: my
contract with Comcast prohibits it, and Comcast can and does change my
IP address without notice (not recently but it has happened many times
in the past).
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