On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Eugene Smiley wrote:

> Evandro Menezes wrote:
>>> That's not correct - there are no differences between the various sub-
>>> zones in how they work.
>>
>> Isn't it what is meant in "Load Distribution" at 
>> http://www.socialtext.net/ntp/index.cgi?dns ?
>
> No. That means when you query DNS for pool.ntp.org that 5 servers are selected
> for those that the monitoring server scored high enough. The weighting ensures
> that higher bandwidth are picked as one of these 5 more often.
>
> Note that you'll get a 5 for 0.pool.ntp.org and 1.pool.ntp.org and
> 2.pool.ntp.org and 3.pool.ntp.org. They might overlap but not likely. And
> they'll be a mix of high and low bandwidth, more often high.

Makes perfect sense ;-)

-ls
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