Tony Hoyle wrote: [ ... ] > I've traditionally used the mcc.ac.uk ones (0.023 jitter)... I've got > about 40 servers on the list at the moment... I'll cut out the ones with > the bad jitter/delay then. Even if I get a GPS source working I'd > rather know how far I am from reality.. if it gets too far I know > something is fubar.
Normally, one should only pick perhaps three remote NTP servers, and set up a ring of three NTP peers locally. Trying to talk to ~40 remote servers is probably not helpful. > Regarding the offset and jutter columns - what scale is this? I thought > it was seconds, but you just quoted 2957.34 as 'a jitter of >1 second' - > I would read that as a jitter of over 49 minutes!! (so I know I'm wrong). The displayed values in ntpq are in milliseconds. -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
