[131416] in North American Network Operators' Group
NTP Server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Kim)
Sun Oct 24 11:36:30 2010
From: Brandon Kim <brandon.kim@brandontek.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 11:34:12 -0400
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hey guys:
I wanted to open up this question regarding NTP server. I recalled someone =
had created a posting of this quite awhile back.
>From a service provider/ISP standpoint=2C does anyone think that having a =
local NTP server is really necessary?
I've asked some of my fellow engineers at work and many of them gives me th=
e same response=2C "Can't we just use free ones out on the internet?"
1) How necessary do you believe in local NTP servers? Do you really need th=
e logs to be perfectly accurate?
2) If you do have a local NTP server=2C is it only for local internal use=
=2C or do you provide this NTP server to your clients as an added service?
3) If you do have a local NTP server=2C do you have a standby local NTP ser=
ver or do you use the internet as your standby server?
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance=2C and this list is such a valuable wealth of resource...=
.
Brandon
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