[time-nuts] NTP pool reliability

[Steve Allen]

During the past week my monitors on several of our telescope control
machines started alerting me that their NTP quality was degrading.
The unhappy ones were using out of the box configurations of
N.pool.centos.pool.ntp.org
We surmised that the NTP packets were not reliably traversing the WAN,
and we have reconfigured the critical machines to use local servers.

Has anyone else seen a degradation of reachability and delay to NTP pool?

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