[time-nuts] NTP pool reliability

[paul swed]

Yes. Not scientific but I noticed one of my servers drifting in time.
Changed to another NTP source seems fine.
Regards
Paul
WB8TSL

On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 12:09 PM Steve Allen <sla at ucolick.org> wrote:

> 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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