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[Ntp] NTPv5 and anycasting

Philip Prindeville <philipp@redfish-solutions.com> Wed, 02 December 2020 05:41 UTC

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Subject: [Ntp] NTPv5 and anycasting
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Sorry if this has been discussed already, but do we want to have a specific prohibition against the use of anycasting with NTPv5?

I can’t see the point in sending packets non-deterministically to one of possibly many servers with different clock values, RTT’s, etc.

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