On Saturday 09 June 2007, Carlos E. R. wrote: > Don't worry if it seems a lot. The program compares them and chooses the > best one. Don't do the choosing yourself, programs are made to automate > things and take the chores on themselves
Well the NTPD program finds the best clock of those supplied to it, but the pool may or may not offer good clocks, may not offer multiple clocks, may not offer the same clock consistently, and you are therefore at the mercy of the pool. I always offer a specific list of clocks in my setup and avoid the pools all together. I think they are a bad idea. I usually use at least two clocks, my ISP, my State University, and occasionally some other state university. Some state universities are statum 1 servers, and these tend to be favored by the daemon. I generally avoid the US national servers, but I have used those in the past for my government customers. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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