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Moe Trin <ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid> wrote:
> [fermi ~]$ host ad.ntp.pool.org
> ad.ntp.pool.org has address 64.99.80.30
> [fermi ~]$ whois 64.99.80.30
>   [SNIP]
>    96 Mowat Avenue
>    Toronto, ON M6K 3M1
>    CA
>   [SNIP]
> [fermi ~]$

> Above, the last I looked neither Andorra or the Faroe Islands are
> located on or close to Mowat Avenue in Toronto, Canada.

I don't see anything in the original whois record that says 64.99.80.30
itself is in Toronto. What you picked out is actually the address provided
by the Tucows.com registrar (see the two lines above your SNIP mark).

Now back to the question about the ntp.pool.org. The
recommendation is to use your country code designation in the Pool,
eg. {0,1,2,3}.uk.ntp.pool.org, but this isn't essential. The advantage
is that if local servers become available they will rotate into the
Pool. If no such servers are available then you're no worse off than if
you'd just used the global ntp.pool.org anyway.

See http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/use.html

It may be important to be aware that the Pool does not guarantee to
deliver time with an accuracy of better than one second (I can't find
a reference to this; I think it was on the mailing list a year or
so back.) That operators such as myself can usually deliver at NTP
accuracies of considerably better than this is a bonus. Many of us
are on ADSL links and the inherent assymetry upsets NTP's algorithms
sufficiently that millisecond accuracy simply isn't possible.

Chris

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