On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 03:07:45PM +0200, Max Grobecker wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 16.04.2016 um 10:20 schrieb Hal Murray:
> > The monitoring system is on the west coast, Los Angeles.  The NIST servers 
> > are on the east coast.  My guess would be asymmetric routing explains the 
> > offset in the monitoring graphs.
> 
> Routing should be totally insignificant to the NTP offsets, since NTP measures
> the packet round-trip and recalculates the timestamps received.
> So, even if the packet needs thousands of milliseconds to get around the 
> internet,
> your time should be +/- 1ms accurate.

That only works properly if the delay is the same the same in both
direction.  Sometimes you can get a totally different route back
and so also have a total different delay.  NTP has no way to
compensate for that.


Kurt

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