Re: RH9 NTP trouble

From: Lawrence DčOliveiro (ldo_at_geek-central.gen.new_zealand)
Date: 01/06/05 

Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:27:30 +1300

In article <pan.2005.01.02.01.39.38.933958@NsOeSiPnAeMr.com>,
 Captain Dondo <yan@NsOeSiPnAeMr.com> wrote:

>In any case, internal consistency is often more important than absolute
>time sync, so regardless of how many machines you have, you should sync
>one machine to an outside server, and sync all your internal machines to
>that one server....

But no single one of those office machines is guaranteed to be up all
the time.

I think most of the people who have commented so far don't understand
enough about NTP for their advice to make sense. If anyone had suggested
that the office machines peer off each other as well as syncing to
external servers, I think that would be a reasonable way of easing the
load on the servers, for example.

>And with your machines syncing off one internal server, you don't have the
>latency issues that appear to plague you....

I'm not having latency issues. A "latency" of 4000 simply means the
client is totally unable to connect with the server at all.

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