[mythtv-users] NTP drift...

[Ask Bjørn Hansen]

On Oct 13, 2006, at 10:25 AM, Romain Kang wrote:

> One assumption in the original NTP implementation was that roundtrip
> delays were symmetric; no wonder ntpd is going insane.

The roundtrip has to be extremely asymmetric for ntpd not to be able  
to keep up.   Unless it's saturated then a typical DSL connection  
doesn't make any difference worth mentioning, for instance.  However,  
if it is saturated then it can indeed end up looking pretty bad.  :-)


   - ask (who is likely responsible for picking your ntp servers :-) )

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