Hi,

Am 20.02.2017 um 14:03 schrieb Andy Smith:
> Hi Rob,

> How would you distinguish ISPs with "good timeservers" from ones
> with unreliable timeservers, where I (as a customer of that ISP)
> will specifically want to avoid their servers and prefer the pool
> only?
> [...]
> If an ISP was concerned about NTP traffic leaving their network
> then they could provide their own NTP servers. Assuming they end up
> performing better than the average pool server -- which they should as
> there's going to be a lot less latency to their own customers than
> between rest of Internet and own customers -- then more of the
> traffic should stay on-net.

Maybe this and the load issues on the DNS servers could both be resolved by 
allowing 
ISPs to get  their own vendor zone style ISP zone - like for example 
"dtag.de.pool.ntp.org"
and the ability to prefer their own servers in this zone.
As a customer I still would be able to distinguish between the ISPs NTP servers 
and the public pool.

The ISPs servers should then of course need to be monitored like all the other 
servers and
if the ISPs servers are unresponsive or returning unrealiable time, the public 
pool servers
would rush into the ISP zone.

And maybe there could be a nice feature for an ISP to maintain a list of known 
very good connected
and "known to have problems" AS numbers to other networks, so the public 
servers in the ISP zone
could be ordered based on this preference list to provide a low-latency time 
source for this ISPs customers.


Greetings
 Max

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