[ntp:questions] ntpd wedged again

Dave Hart davehart at gmail.com
Wed Feb 15 05:44:05 UTC 2012


On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 04:22, unruh <unruh at invalid.ca> wrote:
> On 2012-02-15, Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> Four, five, and seven are the magic numbers for a robust configuration.
>> Most sites will settle for four.  The very paranoid or the very rich
>> might go for seven.
>
> Four is horrible, in that two to two is a tie.

The cluster algorithm doesn't compare one cluster against another, so
that shouldn't be a problem.  See
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/cluster.html and
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/warp.html

Cheers,
Dave Hart


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