[time-nuts] NTP Time Server Ping Timing Stability

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Mon Aug 6 05:33:48 UTC 2007


In message <46B6406F.8070905 at pacific.net>, Brooke Clarke writes:
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>Hi:
>
>I'm curious about the stability of Ping timing between high quality NTP 
>servers.  Is it the case that a histogram will show different times because the 
>path may be different between the two servers but the spread for any given path 
>would be quite small because of the quality of the timing?

That's a pretty impossible question to answer, but you may get some idea
about the results from this paper:
	http://www.ijs.si/time/

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