Just use some countries/zone that aren't yours. The ping time is not a huge deal (of course, closer is better), as long as you can make a stable clock.
I've previously ntp-synced from Germany to California, and gotten +/-10ms on my own server. Probably better, but I don't remember the details. On 2012 Oct 10 (Wed) at 11:05:20 +0200 (+0200), IT2GO wrote: :Dear David, : :I'm living in Belgium (Europe) and the server in Egypt is a dedicated :server. So there isn't any kind of access over there. :I'm busy with a project (something like pingdom.com) and therefor i :need a lot of servers (read : about 20 in different countries). :Because i want to support the NTP project, i've installed the NTP :daemon on every server and put some stratum 1/2 servers into the :config. :But well...it seems that that's impossible for Egypt :) : :Kris : :Op 10/10/2012 11:01, David J Taylor schreef: :>Dear, :> :>I've got a server in Egypt (s01.eg.it2go.eu) and i would like to install :>a NTP server on it. Everything went well, but i can't find any NTP :>stratum 1 or 2 server in Egypt (or around) to sync with. :> :>Anyone that have some idea's? I've already tried the two wiki pages :>(stratum one and stratum two) on pool.ntp.org but there isn't mentioned :>one in Egypt. :> :>Thanks for any help! :> :>Kris :>_______________________________________________ :> :> :>Perhaps you could add a cheap GPS puck such as the Garmin GPS 18x :>LVC or Sure Electronics unit (about US $40), all you need (ha!) is :>a serial port. Details on my Web site: :> :> http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/Sure-GPS.htm :> http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/FreeBSD-GPS-PPS.htm :> :>If the Internet is very bad, you could even use the GPS over USB :>(with the virtual baud rate set high, e.g. 57600 baud). Although :>USB is worse than a serial port connection (where the DCD line is :>used to send the PPS signal), it may still be better than a really :>poor Internet connection. :> :>Cheers, :>David : :_______________________________________________ :pool mailing list :[email protected] :http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool : -- We'll cross out that bridge when we come back to it later. _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
