[ntp:questions] different Ntp servers...

David Woolley david at ex.djwhome.demon.co.uk.invalid
Sun May 31 08:40:06 UTC 2009


Hal Murray wrote:

> 
> I was thinking of the case where you had 2 servers and
> one of them was off by many seconds (or many days).  One
> was clearly broken, but how do you tell which one?

I believe the largest intersecting interval is zero in that case, and 
both get classified as false tickers, so not eligible for averaging.
> 
> Taking the average will guarantee that you get a bad time.
> 




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