[ntp:questions] More Granularity in the US in the NTP Pool

Hal Murray hal-usenet at ip-64-139-1-69.sjc.megapath.net
Wed Sep 12 01:40:49 UTC 2007


>> I like that suggestion.  But, ignoring implementation details,
>> how do you decide which of two servers is "better"?
>
>If one would get a '*' or '+' in ntpq peers output, and the other
>would not, then it is better?

That tells you which is better "right now".  I was looking for
something that averaged over some time period, say a day.

How does 23 "*"s compare with 147 "+"s?

It might be reasonable to assign a weight to the flag character.
Say +3 for a *, +1 for a +, and -1 for a -.

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