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

Danny Mayer mayer at ntp.isc.org
Tue Sep 18 03:07:19 UTC 2007


ask wrote:
> 
> Aiming for your country or region of the world will often be worth it
> - and it helps server operators who pay for "international traffic"
> 
> Requests for "1.pool.ntp.org" (and 0,2,3.pool.ntp.org) will now (if
> you hit one of the new nameservers) give you servers in "your
> country", rather than random ones from around the world.
> 

Also check out the following configuration line (you need a recent
development version of NTP 4.2.5 for this):

pool us.pool.ntp.org

This will configure up to 10 servers from the pool.

Danny



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