Adrian von Bidder wrote:
>On Monday 22 August 2005 23.22, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > >[server monitoring & scoring] > > > >>Also, keep in mind that this is monitored with a very unsophisticated >>client and network lag and such have an impact too. >> >> > >On this point - if Ask hasn't changed the script: I wrote it to only send a >single ntp request. So network irregularities will have a big short term >effect. > >But remember that if your server doesn't have problems, you can miss 2 such >requests completely and you're still at a score of 8.3, and so you're still >included in the pool. Unless you have a 'score +20.000' fetish, this won't >harm you at all. And since servers are only polled relatively rarely, a >transient network error won't usually get your server excluded. > > > Well how could you not expect us to have a score of +20 fetish given that we've all got a fetish about having clocks that are way more accurate than most of us could ever need :-) John _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
