[ntp:questions] Syncing to nearby vs. faraway servers
John Hasler
john at dhh.gt.org
Tue Jun 16 13:00:40 UTC 2009
Richard B. Gilbert writes:
> Country pools were a good start and probably adequate for small
> countries. Countries the size of the U.S. or the U.S.S.R. can't use a
> country wide pool and have much hope of getting a nearby server. For the
> U.S. I'd want a "New England pool", a "middle Atlantic pool" (New Jersey,
> Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virgina), a Southern Atlantic Pool,
> etc. This assumes that "net space" maps well to geographical space which
> may not always be a good assumption.
My best servers are often on the coasts. I'm in Wisconsin. In any case
country pools are quite adequate for 99% of users for whom anything better
than +-0.5 seconds is good enough.
> If a request for a pool server could specify the requester's latitude and
> longitude perhaps that information could be used to assign a nearby
> server?
Seems like an unnecessary complication. Anyone who needs that sort of
performance should be willing and able to select servers by hand.
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John Hasler
john at dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA
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