On May 12, 2012, at 3:09, Hal Murray wrote: > 1] How many servers should the pool command collect? The parameter is > maxclock which defaults to 10. I don't care what the answer is, but that > seems high to me. Is the pool project ready to support that much traffic? > If not, we have to fix the code or make sure that the sample ntp.conf in all > the distros include setting maxclock correctly.
As Kurt mentioned the pool currently returns 3 addresses at a time. I was planning to change this to 4 (or maybe 5?) for 0.pool.ntp.org (and 0.debian, etc, maybe on an opt-in basis as users The two main disadvantages with returning more IPs are that it makes it harder to effectively "load balance" according to the configuration of the server in the pool system and have each "host name" (0, 1, ...) return unique IPs. For the countries with many registered servers this is not a concern, but as a matter of simplicity and transparency I prefer there to be less exceptions (there already are a few for dealing with the small zones). (Though getting past this is "just" a simple matter of programming and documentation). Ask _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
