Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
> On Oct 13, 2007, at 9:50, Evandro Menezes wrote:
>
>   
>> And it seems that allowing for 100ms offset due to network traffic  
>> is perhaps too much leeway. [...]
>>     
>
> For now 100ms is "close enough".  For SNTP clients it's plenty  
> accurate.  As you noticed, ntpd/NTP clients will figure out to pick  
> another server.
>
>   
>> Finally, instead of an SNTP-way of probing the servers, why not run  
>> NTP with a appropriate minpoll and noselect to evaluate the actual  
>> offset better?
>>     
>
> Mostly because ntpd doesn't let you remove and add servers "online",  
> so it'd take longer to add a new server to the monitoring.   For the  
> future distributed monitoring I'm planning to set it up that way though.
>
>
>    - ask
>
>   
Actually, my servier is in FL and I see fairly frequent spikes of 80ms 
in the trend graph. I am not sure you can trust that you will always get 
a short hop. Net traffice can go anywhichway.

Bob
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