[time-nuts] 5ms glitch on WAN ntp server peerstats at around 01:00 UTC today

[Mike Cook]

Hi Dan,
Everything seems pretty much back to normal this morning. I’ll have to take another look at yesterdays data to see when that happened. I’ll add a suitable graph to my site as an example of wide area routing induced offset glitches.
Mike

> Le 11 janv. 2017 à 00:14, dan at drown.org a écrit :
> 
> On Jan 10, you wrote:
>> I saw 5ms offset jumps on most of the internet ntp servers that I am using at about 01:00UTC today. The servers are as widespread as NIST Boulder, NPL UK, Hungary, Scotland, Spain, France, Czechoslovakia.
> 
> Did the RTT change at the same time?  5ms offset change might show up as a 10ms increase or decrease in latency.
> 
> I saw a jump a few hours later reaching utcnist2.colorado.edu:
> 
> ========================================================================================================================
>   Date (UTC) Time     IP Address   L St 123 567 ABCD  LP RP Score    Offset  Peer del. Peer disp.  Root del. Root disp.
> ========================================================================================================================
> 2017-01-10 02:57:48 128.138.141.172 N  1 111 111 1111  10 13 1.00 -1.260e-02  4.826e-02  1.003e-06  2.441e-04  4.883e-04
> 2017-01-10 03:15:02 128.138.141.172 N  1 111 111 1111  10 13 1.00 -9.482e-03  5.012e-02  1.003e-06  2.441e-04  4.883e-04
> 2017-01-10 03:32:19 128.138.141.172 N  1 111 111 1111  10 13 1.00 -1.173e-02  4.629e-02  1.003e-06  2.441e-04  4.883e-04
> 2017-01-10 03:49:35 128.138.141.172 N  1 111 111 1111  10 13 1.00 -1.268e-02  4.887e-02  1.003e-06  2.441e-04  4.883e-04
> 2017-01-10 04:06:51 128.138.141.172 N  1 111 111 1111  10 13 1.00 -1.256e-02  4.922e-02  1.003e-06  2.441e-04  4.883e-04
> --- RTT (Peer del.)/Offset changes here
> 2017-01-10 04:41:15 128.138.141.172 N  1 111 111 1111  10 13 0.88 -5.550e-04  2.369e-02  1.002e-06  2.441e-04  4.883e-04
> 2017-01-10 04:58:23 128.138.141.172 N  1 111 111 1111  10 13 0.78 -1.634e-03  2.340e-02  1.687e-06  2.441e-04  4.883e-04
> 
> https://dan.drown.org/vps3/latest/remote-statistics.128.138.141.172.png
> 
> You can see from the graph this offset change was most likely a change in both routes (request and response) between my server and the utcnist2 server.
> 
> I saw one other server change latency at around the same time.  It's possible one of the backbone networks was doing maintenance work.

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