[131471] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NTP Server
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Mon Oct 25 17:02:16 2010
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: nick@foobar.org (Nick Hilliard)
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:01:53 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <4CC5D23C.5080509@foobar.org>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> 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.
That's a good point.
> This tends to mean that running ntp on a VM is not generally a good idea.
Running it on a busy host of any kind is not generally a good idea.
... JG
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