Brad Knowles wrote:

> At 11:33 AM -0400 2005-09-08, Eugene Smiley wrote:
> 
>>  It's actually already in place. Foe example, if you are working on
>>  server in us.pool.ntp.org then the 4 servers are:
>>
>>  us.pool.ntp.org
>>  1.us.pool.ntp.org
>>  2.us.pool.ntp.org
>>  3.us.pool.ntp.org
> 
>     There is no 3. numbered sub-zone in any of the pool.ntp.org zones. 
> They are instead numbered 0-2.  Moreover, the same servers are used in
> the parent zone as well as in the numbered sub-zones, so there's a good
> chance that you'll get a duplicate record.

Oops. My bad. I hadn't had my caffeine yet. I actually meant 0-2.

>     The OP was asking if it made sense to also include an explicit 3.
> sub-zone, at least in the zones where it makes sense, so that we can
> make sure that there is no duplication between any of the numbered
> sub-zones and that this will give us the minimum four upstream time
> servers that are needed to be able to deal with a single falseticker.

Ah.


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