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Re: NTP Server

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Mon Oct 25 14:54:18 2010

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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:53:48 +0100
From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
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On 25/10/2010 15:56, Joe Greco wrote:
> Four is, IMHO, the best number of servers to have.  They do not need to be
> fast or modern machines.

They do need to have a somewhat unbroken internal clock.

This tends to mean that running ntp on a VM is not generally a good idea.

Nick


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