Hal Murray wrote: >>> I like that suggestion. But, ignoring implementation details, >>> how do you decide which of two servers is "better"? >> If one would get a '*' or '+' in ntpq peers output, and the other >> would not, then it is better? > > That tells you which is better "right now". I was looking for > something that averaged over some time period, say a day. > > How does 23 "*"s compare with 147 "+"s? > > It might be reasonable to assign a weight to the flag character. > Say +3 for a *, +1 for a +, and -1 for a -. >
The current NTP daemon already has code to rank the servers. Brian Utterback _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
