[ntp:questions] Meinberg NTP Software--Time Accuracy

David Woolley david at ex.djwhome.demon.co.uk.invalid
Wed Jun 24 20:55:16 UTC 2009


John Hasler wrote:

> With the pool, there is really no reason to use an ISP's NTP servers
> anyway.  My Debian Chrony package uses them by default, as does the Debian
> Ntp package.  
> 

The reasons for using an ISP's and even more so for using a campus' is 
that they are very close in network terms and you avoid using external 
bandwidth.  The real purpose of the stratum concept is to encourage this 
sort of hierarchy.




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