Rob wrote: > Rick Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Rob <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> This is no longer required. You can just use pool.ntp.org or >>> 0.pool.ntp.org and the DNS servers for the pool will automatically >>> determine which servers are closest to you. >>> >> Is that by geography, hop count or ICMP echo RTT? >> > > By geography, just like the zones that were mentioned in the post above. > However, they are more fine-grained, especially when compared with > large zones like us or eu. > > (there have been experiments with other metrics like AS number) > Which means if you are inside of a larger network you may have issues with using pool servers since they will be computed to the IP address of the gateway system you use as the client's network portal.
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