On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 5:18 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know about "most". Maybe I just wasn't clever enough to figure this > out, but I had (wrongly) assumed that "the list" was the preferred means of > finding good servers, and that using the pool to find upstream servers was > not recommended but permissible. So I (again wrongly) assumed most pool > servers would be stratum3. Oops!
That would be also my understanding given the info at pool.ntp.org. Though the site emphasizes that using hand-picked pool servers as upstream is fine. There are also plenty stratum 1's and 2's in the pool: about 9% of all servers are stratum 1 and 70% are stratum 2 (I recently gathered the info for each zone here: http://pastebin.com/raw/bPik3KGX ): I believe the lists at support.ntp.org are still quite useful, especially for finding nearby stratum 1's. A good part of those are not in the NTP pool, so there are not many other options to find them. > Now that I've seen your command, what if the pool site had a way of letting a > potential pool server operator pick their region, pick a stratum, and then > give them a list of 10-15 servers to pick from. That sounds like a good idea, given that the pool site should have access to those data. But there is also a higher risk of misuse (people hardcoding those IPs in routers and such) that should be addressed. Matej _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
