On Feb 7, 2006, at 8:32 AM, Alan Watson wrote:
wayne wrote:
Raising the cut-off from 5 to 19 sounds
drastic, but really, it would only take 6 hours more to return to the
pool. Raising it to 19.9 would take longer for a server to get back
into the pool and would probably be very similar to a "long-term"
rating that you are suggesting.
Yes and no. My pool server is a dedicated stratum 2 server
connected to a private stratum 1 server by half a meter of cat-5
cable. However, I'm in México, so sometimes network jitter causes a
big offset from the monitoring servers and causes my server's score
to drop below 19. If you look at:
http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/132.248.81.29
you can see that this happened last Tuesday. With the current
monitoring system, my server stays in the pool. With a more strict
system, it would drop out regularly.
Actually, what I had in mind was not so much to make it easier to
"fall out" of the special pool but rather to make it harder to get in
(or back in).
Again, I'm not planning to change the general pool - only to start
playing with an alternate score and possibly use it for pool.ntp.org
and maybe the continental zones, but not the country zones and not
the numbered zones (if you use a numbered zone you are probably
running ntpd and have several configured).
Now, is my server a "bad" server? [...]
No, it's not. :-)
[...]
However, there is currently no mx.pool.ntp.org subdomain.
There is, no? $ host mx.pool.ntp.org
mx.pool.ntp.org A 201.137.20.4
mx.pool.ntp.org A 132.248.81.29
mx.pool.ntp.org A 148.243.173.8
mx.pool.ntp.org A 200.23.51.205
The current setup seems fine to me. I think we need to think
carefully both about our goals and about the law of unintended
consequences before changing it.
Indeed.
If we are going to be tougher on the scoring we also need to be
tougher on the monitoring system requirements.
That is not going to be relevant for a while though. Other things
like getting the pages translated again and such are much more
important for now.
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