[ntp:questions] Quality vs. Quantity

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis at Shaw.ca
Mon Mar 24 17:37:28 UTC 2014


On 2014-03-24 08:53, Paul wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:26 AM, Danny Mayer <mayer at ntp.org> wrote:
>
>> That's a misconception. While I trust Richard Schmidt in what he says,
>> that's is not what you think he says.
>>
>
> It's hard to misinterpret "590SG load balancers" and :
>
> "It is the load balancer's duty to assign each incoming NTP request to one
> of the available servers, balancing the load by round-robin, weighted
> round-robin, least active connections, or other algorithm. Each NTP server
> returns packets to the load balancer for forwarding back to the requestor."

I hope that description is inaccurate, because of the additional
delay and jitter added by passing twice through the front end.
I would expect the load balancer to only provide the IP
addresses of the currently lowest loaded and highest quality
servers closest to the client, as the NTP Pool does.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis


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