[112763] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Leap second tonight
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Mar 17 13:22:04 2009
To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:06:51 PDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:21:40 -0400
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 08:06:51 PDT, Kevin Oberman said:
> Routers as ntp servers. Yuck! Routers route well, but they treat time as
> a low priority job and jitter on Cisco routers is simply terrible.
> Junipers do better, but are still a poor time server.
They may suck for being a Stratum-1/2 server, but even the most jittery
Cisco is still far and away good enough to serve up a ntpdate so that an
end-user PC-class machine is in the right minute.
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