On Sat, October 27, 2007 23:14, Jan Hoevers said: > Björn Gabrielsson wrote on 27-10-2007 23:00: >> On Sat, October 27, 2007 20:40, Jan Hoevers said: >>> J.A.C.M. (Jos) van de Ven wrote on 27-10-2007 20:19: >>>> Jan, >>>> >>>> I used command ntpq -p awk.xs4all.nl! >>>> Interesting servers you have. I read somewhere to use different >>>> network >>>> paths, in case one or more paths fail. >>>> You only have 3 as I can see. Do you think that is reliable enough? It >>>> seems >>>> to me a kind of "prefer" setting if you have 9 servers on same path. >>> You're absolutely right Jos. My setup is no good in that aspect, and >>> still under test. >>> As you already guessed the next step is to select two of the swedish >>> servers and go for the next network path. >>> >>> Still, sub-millisecond accuracy was beyond my expectations with 3 >>> different paths. I think that illustrates use of a nanokernel is >>> useful, >>> even when synchronizing over the internet. >> >> Are you sure the Stupi servers ARE going the same way. Last time I >> heard, >> they did use different pipes coming into the same location. > > Thanks Bjorn, that's interesting. I investigated the path to the netnod > servers and just assumed stupi was connected to netnod. > I'm in nl; I guess the trajectory Amsterdam - Malmo is the same. So Jos > was at least partly right when he criticized that.
Netnod.se are the exchange points for Swedish ISPs. As such they are an excellent place to put NTP-servers. Stupi is rather well connected to different nets. (http://www.stupi.se/Net/index.html) -- Björn _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
