Adrian von Bidder wrote:

>On Monday 22 August 2005 23.22, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
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>[server monitoring & scoring]
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>>Also, keep in mind that this is monitored with a very unsophisticated  
>>client and network lag and such have an impact too.
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>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.
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>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.
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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


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