On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 09:22:37AM -0400, Todd wrote: || I'm trying to reorganize the upstream servers I use since they seem to || fluctuate a lot recently. Usually this is a very tedius task of adding || a new st1 server, restarting ntpd (I can't get auth to work locally so I || can make runtime changes for some reason), letting it run for a day or || so, checking it, and then repeating. I can't try using ntpq on them || since they're tied to a real source it's always going to have an offset || of 0. Are there commands that can poll the time from an arbitrary || server and compare it to yours? Or is there any info on how to setup || localhost auth so I can at least add and remove peers from a running || server? I seem to recall finding a link at one point that went into || more details about choosing good upstream servers aside from the more || generalized information on www.pool.ntp.org pages.
I'd collect a batch of 10 or so, add them all, let it run for a week, then choose the best 3 or 4. You want to judge the quality of the server with a reasonable amount of history, not for one specific moment in time. By the way, there's no need to use st1 servers. In my experience they're overloaded and actually give worse results than st2. YMMV of course. Ciao. Vincent. -- Vincent Zweije <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | "If you're flamed in a group you <http://www.xs4all.nl/~zweije/> | don't read, does anybody get burnt?" [Xhost should be taken out and shot] | -- Paul Tomblin on a.s.r.
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