On Oct 7, 2008, at 12:57, Jeff wrote:

> I don't see the fascination with location here.  I don't care if ntp
> servers that I sync with are next door or around the world, as long as
> they're reliable, and consistently accessible.

This is basically the thing.   The location might help a little bit,  
so it's worth taking into consideration.   In some countries  
"international bandwidth" is much more expensive than local bandwidth,  
so there's that too.

As someone else pointed out; it's not obvious that humans would be  
much better at picking the location than MaxMind.   As it's working  
now server admins send me a mail when it's wrong (or just add it as a  
comment when they add the server).  I don't think this happens more  
than every few months.

Martin made a patch to allow users to override the automatic selection  
when the server is added; which for IPv6 will be necessary - but will  
also save me a minute of work every few months.  :-)  It'll be up on  
the site when I move it to the new servers.


  - ask

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