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

Danny Mayer mayer at ntp.org
Fri Jun 26 21:03:28 UTC 2009


Rob wrote:
> Rick Jones <rick.jones2 at hp.com> wrote:
>> Rob <nomail at example.com> wrote:
>>> This is no longer required.  You can just use pool.ntp.org or
>>> 0.pool.ntp.org and the DNS servers for the pool will automatically
>>> determine which servers are closest to you.
>> Is that by geography, hop count or ICMP echo RTT?
> 
> By geography, just like the zones that were mentioned in the post above.
> However, they are more fine-grained, especially when compared with
> large zones like us or eu.
> 

How are you going to know the geography. DNS clients does not supply
that information even if they knew it and it's certainly not part of the
DNS protocol.

Danny

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