From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:41:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <517AA020.2070805@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGWRaZaapyx6nbOS0LWM6uOqazbmgd4evnHYVdwHjckgtvmPhA@mail.gmail.com>
On 26/04/2013 17:27, Nick Khamis wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> Thank you for the many solutions however, I am totally lost as to which would
> be most reliable in a collocation setting vs. office desktop. What we would like
> is to set up our own ntp server which other servers and desktops in our office
> syncs to. Is this advised? If so, is there a nice tutorial online?
The subject of time is vastly more complex than anyone ever thinks at
first look. Time servers are tiered and are themselves both clients and
servers...
So here's what you do: sync everything to your ISP's time servers.
Chances are good they do a better job than you can, just like with DNS
caching.
When you know more about the subject than you do now, you can venture
into rolling your own. I'm not being rude or funny - time servers are
just one of those things that unless you have special needs and LOTS of
cash, it is so much easier to just let someone else do all the heavy
lifting.
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-26 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-25 14:33 [gentoo-user] Server system date synchronizaion Nick Khamis
2013-04-25 14:39 ` Dale
2013-04-25 17:24 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2013-04-25 23:48 ` Dale
2013-04-25 14:40 ` Michael Mol
2013-04-25 14:46 ` Tanstaafl
2013-04-25 17:05 ` Michael Mol
2013-04-25 15:03 ` Nick Khamis
2013-04-25 15:02 ` Tanstaafl
2013-04-25 15:07 ` Nick Khamis
2013-04-25 23:42 ` William Kenworthy
2013-04-25 23:50 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-04-25 23:57 ` staticsafe
2013-04-26 0:25 ` William Kenworthy
2013-04-25 17:10 ` Michael Mol
2013-04-26 14:10 ` Joseph
2013-04-26 14:52 ` Jarry
2013-04-26 15:27 ` Nick Khamis
2013-04-26 15:41 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2013-04-26 15:54 ` Nick Khamis
2013-04-26 16:44 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-04-26 17:11 ` Nick Khamis
2013-04-26 20:33 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-04-26 21:28 ` Nick Khamis
2013-04-27 15:06 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-04-26 18:36 ` Stroller
2013-04-26 20:39 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-04-26 18:54 ` Paul Hartman
2013-04-26 20:41 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-04-26 20:46 ` [gentoo-user] Re[2]: " the guard
2013-04-26 20:54 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-04-26 21:02 ` [gentoo-user] Re[2]: " the guard
2013-04-26 21:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-04-26 21:43 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-04-27 1:20 ` Peter Humphrey
2013-04-27 3:19 ` William Kenworthy
2013-04-27 3:44 ` Andrew Lowe
2013-04-27 15:15 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-04-27 17:45 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-04-27 9:07 ` [gentoo-user] Re[2]: [gentoo-user] Re[2]: " Neil Bothwick
2013-04-27 15:09 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-04-27 17:48 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-04-27 16:24 ` Tanstaafl
2013-04-27 16:33 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-04-27 17:48 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-04-26 22:11 ` Paul Hartman
2013-04-27 15:27 ` Alan McKinnon
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