Dennis Hilberg, Jr. wrote:
> Mine had a similar step:
> http://www.pool.ntp.org/scores/24.20.30.232
> 
> Don't read too much into occasional large offsets on the graph, it happens 
> periodically. The monitoring system isn't perfect.
> 
> Quote from the Pool website: "The monitoring system works roughly like an 
> SNTP (RFC 2030) client, so it is more susceptible by random network 
> latencies between the server and the monitoring system than a regular ntpd 
> client would be. In other words: Don't be alarmed by the occasional large 
> offset and please don't use the offset as an absolute performance metric."
> 
> Interesting that they all occurred at similar times though, possibly 
> indicating a network hiccup at the monitoring site(s).

Actually, after viewing some other graphs they all seem to be about 50ms off 
since that hiccup, including mine and all listed on 
http://www.pool.ntp.org/join.html . I wonder what that's all about.

Dennis

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