[time-nuts] Cloudflare

[Tim Shoppa]

I have been observing time.cloudflare.com latency and accuracy the past 3
days.

It is a stratum 3 server, so folks might think that it's not as good as a
Stratum 1 or Stratum 2.

BUT... it has exceptionally low latency and it seems very likely it's
Stratum 3 because it is fed by a well-maintained set of highly redundant
sources. The NTP stratum hierarchy is not a bad idea but really no end-user
has any actual need to hook up to a real Stratum 1 and would almost always
be better suited to choose a lower stratum server fed with a highly curated
list of good Stratum 1/2's.

It seems possible given cloudflare's diverse geographic servers, that folks
will get directed to a nearby low-latency server every time they resolve
the name.

Tim N3QE

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 4:03 PM Marco Davids via time-nuts <
time-nuts at lists.febo.com> wrote:

> Opinions, anyone?
>
> https://blog.cloudflare.com/secure-time/amp/
>
> ("Introducing time.cloudflare.com")
>
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> Marco
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