In message <e1wsboi-000dny...@stenn.ntp.org>, Harlan Stenn writes: >"Poul-Henning Kamp" writes: >> In message <CABbxVHuQc0144==21mDa_R8ErKov=em+9rvrbpggexnzztj...@mail.gmail.co >> m> >> , Chris Albertson writes: >> >> >Yes. NTP calls it "root distance" [...] >> >> And it is generally useless, because people don't calibrate it. > >http://bugs.ntp.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2587 > >Because I've forgotten to open a ticket on this too often for too long.
I'm actually not certain that it helps, even if you document it. It's sort of an "administrative" distance and it unfairly penalizes any GNSS in favour of terrestial if you calibrate it according to the original intent... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 p...@freebsd.org | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
