[158097] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NTP Issues Today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Lyon)
Tue Nov 20 16:05:08 2012
In-Reply-To: <CAFANWtXteTFbjKRZq+r0wovnbFRb0EQuDddE0ESSHAr2E1AMFw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 13:04:43 -0800
From: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
To: Darius Jahandarie <djahandarie@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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I usually use time.nist.gov.
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Darius Jahandarie <djahandarie@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:
> > For small players, less than 4 sites, typically just use the NTP
> > pool servers, configuring 4 per box minimum. If you want the same
> > protection I just outlined in the paragraph before, make 4 of your
> > servers talk to the outside world, and make everything else talk
> > to those. Want to give back to the community? Get a GPS/CDMA/Whatever
>
> Choosing the first four servers is usually pretty straightforward:
> *.CC.pool.ntp.org
>
> But beyond that, I'm honestly rather curious what server selections
> are a good idea. A first thought would be an adjacent country, but
> maybe there is a benefit to picking things outside of the pool.ntp.org
> selection entirely?
>
> I see that Jared used *.fedora.pool.ntp.org -- I wonder if there was a
> specific reason for that or if my questions are even worth thinking
> about at all :-).
>
>
> Happy to hear thoughts.
>
> --
> Darius Jahandarie
>
>
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