"David L. Mills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> No, there is no random delay at startup. Each association starts one >>> second after the previous one. The random backoff occurs only after >>> a step. >> >> Is there also a random backoff after an increase of the polling >> interval? > No. However, there is a small dither of a few percent at all poll > intervals to resist self-synchronization. Wouldn't that be a nice feature to add? If it's currently polling a server on, say second 100 (reckoned externally) of 256, to go to either 100 _or 356_ of 512. I understand that there are already some random waits in the client code and Internet servers are well protected by random noise. But for large numbers of clients in a uniform environment that were all started at about the same time, is there any way they tend to naturally disperse across the final 1024s polling interval? Groetjes, Maarten Wiltink _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
