> It's hard to distinguish "cable in the middle that just affects the > monitoring server" from "some other similar problem that'd affect many > peoples connectivity to that server" so I think it's reasonable for > the system to error on the side of caution. > > Only in very unusual edge cases is there any cost to disabling a > server from the pool for a few hours. On the other hand the > reliability of the system goes down if we *don't* disable a server > that may have some sort of trouble.
I agree. Just a note: Network problems affecting monitoring host itself may be eliminated by using more than one measurement points. I.e. proxies. I'd be happy to create and manage such a proxy. We just have to figure out some convenient interface. :-) Regards Gabor _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
