hoey@AIC.NRL.NAVY.MIL (06/01/91)
Hello NTP server contacts, Host sun0.aic.nrl.navy.mil [192.26.18.51], a sun-3 running ntpd under SunOS 4.1, is now configured to use umd1.umd.edu and dcn1.udel.edu as its reference time base. The "peer" command (NTP packets sourced in Symmetric-Active mode) is used because sun0 provides a reference for the other twenty-odd hosts on its local network. I chose these servers because they serve SURANET (which is nearby from here) and showed a fairly low ping round-trip (50 ms for umd1, 500 ms for dcn1). If you know of any other NRL NTP servers, please let me know so I can add some closer peers. Dan Hoey Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil
Mills@udel.edu (06/02/91)
Dan, While you are welcome to chime dcn1, 500 ms delay sounds rather high. I have noticed a growing degree of non-reciprocal delays on SURA wires, reaching 20-40 ms on occasion. It may be time to add this feature to my list of complaints, including growing packet-loss rates which now exceed three percent. Dave