On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:30:01PM +0100, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > > (Incidentally, the NTP howto recommends configuring your machine to > > consult *three* geographically proximate lower-stratum servers for best > > results -- so it sounds like these new "reasonable defaults" contradict > > the advice of upstream?) > These days, network topology correlates quite badly to geography. And round-robin DNS correlates to it not at all. My reference to "geography" was intended as convenient shorthand only; I have in fact selected our NTP peers based on round-trip time, and the RTT does happen to correlate with geographical proximity. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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