> I also struggle to find those good time servers. The pool is a good > source but the servers tent to go on and of - which I guess would be one > of the benefits from using a pool. I think its a very good initiative > and I have often wondered why support.ntp.org was the only public source > of ntp servers.
You bring up an interesting thought. While the "Join the Pool" page emphasizes the long-term nature of joining the pool, there is a risk of getting a server that might drop off the Internet in a few months. When you are joining the pool yourself, you don't necessarily want upstreams that haven't been around for very long. With the public list at support.ntp.org, you can see how long they've been around. With a simple query to pool.ntp.org, it's a little trickier. You can view the page for a specific IP by going to http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/x.x.x.x (putting in the IP of course), but that doesn't give you a join date. I wonder if Ask has the information on when a server was added to the pool, and if he could add that information on the score page for each server...hint hint Then, if you had such a tool/page as I mentioned, when you list 10-15 random servers for the prospective "pool joiner", you could link the IP addresses to the score pages. That would be a nice way of getting at that information. Heck, if it wasn't too much bother, you could just list join dates right next to each record. At this point, Ask is probably wondering when I'm going to stop dreaming up work for him to do, so I'll stop :) Shane _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
