On Oct 30, 2011, at 21:13, Kradorex Xeron wrote: > My concern isn't as much at either the monitoring network' ISP's end OR the > NTP servers' ISPs' end, but rather "Somewhere in the middle", say a failed > route due to a cut cable that hasn't been routed around yet or a bad core > router.
Yeah, it'd seem like this would be a problem but in reality the number of times this happens is really negligible. It's hard to distinguish "cable in the middle that just affects the monitoring server" from "some other similar problem that'd affect many peoples connectivity to that server" so I think it's reasonable for the system to error on the side of caution. Only in very unusual edge cases is there any cost to disabling a server from the pool for a few hours. On the other hand the reliability of the system goes down if we *don't* disable a server that may have some sort of trouble. - ask _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
