On 25 Aug 2016 at 16:41, [email protected] wrote: > > 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. >
Hi I have four servers in the pool but for ntp sources all use public ntp servers and none of them uses a pool server. I also have a gps source and at one time also had a radioclock source but that was too unreliable and with offsets > 1ms. For the sources I selected for both low RTT and low average offset. David > 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 -- David Lord <[email protected]> <ftp://ftp.lordynet.org/pub/pgpkeys/[email protected]> <http://www.lordynet.org/pub/pgpkeys/[email protected]> _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
