Peter Roozemaal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There won't be a convergence to a stable set of 4 servers if you throw
> out one of them on a daily basis. You are not even guaranteed to get a
> single stable server. Consider having 5 "optimal" peers, all at the same
> nearby provider; each of those servers alternately spend 1 day in the
> global pool and gets swamped by ntpdate bursts during the day.

Does that really happen - "good" servers getting swamped and thrown
out regularly?

I'm not saying that there aren't clients that have stupid patterns
for asking for time, but they only hurt other similarly stupid clients
so I don't see that as fundamental.

Tim.
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