dntpd

Simon 'corecode' Schubert corecode at fs.ei.tum.de
Mon Jun 25 10:38:19 PDT 2007


Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     I'm going to do some work on dntpd to try to correct two unrelated
>     issues.  First I'll try to have it detect a bad time source when 
>     several are available.  Second, I'll have it re-run the DNS lookup
>     if a server stops responding and I'll have it detect duplicate IPs.

How about taking the median of offsets to all servers which are considered "good"?  Good would be something like "off less than two times the standard deviation" or so.

cheers
  simon






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