Tapio Sokura wrote:
I got the same results that others have described on this list, the
My results are similar (location: Sydney-ish, Australia). Of the 5 results, 3 were from my own ISP (1 was my server). Ping times ranged from 0.2ms (mine!) to 200ms and one didn't respond to pings. The 200ms one was one of the ones on my ISP! After excluding mine, average of the remaining 3 was 103ms.
Using the existing sub-domains [0-3].au.pool.ntp.org, average ping time was 32ms. (As an aside, 0.nz.pool.ntp.org also returned pings of around 32ms)
But using the global pool, the average from here was 360ms. So the geographic DNS certainly provides a worthwhile improvement as a default. Those who want better results can still use the sub-domains.
Thinking about it, my results aren't that surprising. My ISP is pretty much exclusively a retail supplier with little or no hosting or people on fat pipes. So any addresses advertised with their AS are most likely to be adsl customers like myself, while the au sub-domains includes servers which are probably not that net-distant but on lower-latency pipes, hence the better results.
Anyhow, a worthwhile result from my perspective. Thanks Guillaume. Cheers, Mark _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
