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

Todd Glassey CISM CIFI tglassey at earthlink.net
Tue Jun 23 18:08:53 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.
>
> (there have been experiments with other metrics like AS number)
>   
Which means if you are inside of a larger network you may have issues 
with using pool servers since they will be computed to the IP address of 
the gateway system you use as the client's network portal.

Todd
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